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I 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?
>'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"
Sure.
He's quite educated, decorated, extremely experienced and I don't doubt there's legitimate product/services ready to be sold.
That's not really the question though.
It's how much distance there is between whatever the highly educated, experienced, pre-eminent security consultants not named Keith Alexander are paid and $1M per month. It's also a matter of who is willing to pay that much and why.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
Nope, they target anyone and everyone big. True, there are some DoD names on that list... but Nasdaq, Google, Yahoo, and Adobe are most decidedly not DoD companies.
Why can the NSA patent anything at all, preventing the public from using the technology it generated with taxpayers' money?
"Alexander said that if he determines that he needs to use technology or methods that the NSA has patented, he will pay for a license". Why can the NSA patent anything at all, preventing the public from using the technology it generated with taxpayers' money?
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They target anyone that has proprietary information that they can use to make money. I'm sure there are plenty of DoD targets, but these are outnumbered by private companies with no ties to the goverment.
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Source?
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...I'm pretty sure that award goes to the enjoyable human beings in the banking and foreclosures industries, followed only possibly by health insurance companies.