I'm sure he'd charge them even more if it weren't for Snowden devaluing some of the information he knows.
Without Snowden no one would take him seriously Id venture to say.
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#23>"It was those kinds of hackers who Alexander, when he was running the NSA, said were responsible for "the greatest transfer of wealth in American history" because they were routinely stealing trade secrets and competitive information from U.S. companies and giving it to their competitors, often in China." Oh, and here I thought the greatest transfer of wealth in American history was the massive rise in disparity ove…
That's consolidation of wealth -- transfer (in this context) implies it leaves sphere of American influence.
No, the analogy holds. One is across national borders, the other across economic strata. Here is an article from Forbes describing welfare as wealth transfer:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2011/07/15/mak...
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#24I wouldn't hire a security company run by the former head of the NSA. Is there any question in anyone's mind that if he was approached by the government to put a backdoor in your company's product or infrastructure, he wouldn't hesitate for a second to say yes?
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#25Pretty 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.
The point is there seems to be different rules governing people who come from different positions or social classes in our society.
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It's very secure.
They will fax you the details.
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#27He's most likely using inside information from the NSA. This warrants an investigation and constant monitoring by DOJ (not that they'd actually do anything about it if they saw Alexander selling secret NSA information to companies).
As someone else was saying on Twitter - at least Snowden gave back the information to tax-payers for free. Keith Alexander is just trying to profit from it, and only giving it to a few elites.
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There was a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing to this fact already, and Snowden finally confirmed this last year in an interview with Der Spiegel [1]. [1]: http://cryptome.org/2013/07/snowden-spiegel-13-0707-en.htm
Ah thanks. I had read about a lot of evidence pointing in the USA's direction, but didn't realize Snowden also confirmed it. Arguably still hearsay, but certainly adds more weight to it.
In addition to the Snowden confirmation, there were some press leaks in 2012 that appear to have confirmed it earlier [1]. Apparently there's still some investigations going on within the U.S. government about who leaked it.
I'd say it's a pretty clear-cut case who was behind Stuxnet.
[1] http://www.wired.com/2013/06/general-keith-alexander-cyberwa...
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The NSA's job isn't private cyber security. Also, non-competes are evil.
The point is there seems to be different rules governing people who come from different positions or social classes in our society.
That doesn't sound right at all. CEOs are more likely to be bound by noncompetes than line employees. Equally importantly, the noncompete of a CEO is much more likely to be enforceable. Contractual restrictions on competition probably become more onerous as economic status increases.