The NSA's Cyber-King Goes Corporate
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The NSA's Cyber-King Goes Corporate
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#2Buy security from a company run by someone who lied to Congress? Um... yeah.
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#3$600k-$1m a month apparently gets you a cyber security company with no website.
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#4Pretty amazing that the former director of the NSA can start a company in his former employer's space without being sued and yet as programmers we can't get a job anywhere without signing huge stacks of papers that make doing the same nearly impossible, or scary enough to where we don't even bother.
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#5$600k-$1m a month apparently gets you a cyber security company with no website.
xipiter was homepage less for 4 years, they managed fine.
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#6>'What insights or expertise about cybersecurity could possibly justify such a sky-high fee, some wondered, even for a man as well-connected in the military-industrial complex as the former head of the nation's largest intelligence agency?'
The same sort of insights and expertise that athletes put into stuff sold by Nike, Adidas or Gatorade.
It's an endorsement deal.
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#7Pretty amazing that the former director of the NSA can start a company in his former employer's space without being sued and yet as programmers we can't get a job anywhere without signing huge stacks of papers that make doing the same nearly impossible, or scary enough to where we don't even bother.
The NSA's job isn't private cyber security. Also, non-competes are evil.
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#8Wiper is a cousin of the notorious Stuxnet virus, which was built by the NSA -- while Alexander was in charge -- in cooperation with Israeli intelligence.
Have the Stuxnet creators actually been proven to be the US and Israel? I thought it was still speculation (but almost certainly true).
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#9I'm sure he'd charge them even more if it weren't for Snowden devaluing some of the information he knows.
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#10>'What insights or expertise about cybersecurity could possibly justify such a sky-high fee, some wondered, even for a man as well-connected in the military-industrial complex as the former head of the nation's largest intelligence agency?' The same sort of insights and expertise that athletes put into stuff sold by Nike, Adidas or Gatorade. It's an endorsement deal.
I think it's a little more than an endorsement deal. He knows deep inside information into what surveillance programs the NSA operates. I read it as follows: "we guarantee your company's IT infrastructure will no longer be seen as a low hanging fruit to the NSA"