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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.
Perhaps toss in some particular narrow-band legal and program (as a human endeavor, not a technical skill) knowledge.
Most "revolving door" activity in DC centers around these areas of expertise and influence (politics, connections, legalese), as far as I have observed from my distant perch.
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Not everything developed by the government is automatically supposed to be available to the public so I guess I don't understand your point.
The point is how is it acceptable that a previously-public-servant can have insider knowledge about "secret" government patents and he can obtain a license to use the technology but I cannot? That's absurd and an abuse of power and privilege.
Or just that he was going to use NSA patents?
Because the NSA maintains a list of patented technologies that they offer to the public on various terms: http://www.nsa.gov/research/_files/tech_transfers/nsa_techno...
Government agencies about to be inundated with sales pitches from General Alexander's company in 3...2...1... Same thing happened when Admiral Fallon retired and suddenly discovered his long hidden cyber security talent at NeuralIQ. This is a way for these guys to use influence to sell things to agencies they used to run.
How can we forget Chertoff, and his lobbying/fear mongering on behalf of body scanner manufacturers. He very transparently used his credentials as former Secretary of Homeland Security to get his client's devices installed in every airport in the country.
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The government never paid him a million dollars.
How would you know? The US intelligence budget clocks in around $52 billion. You don't think a few million could be allocated if it was the most-expedient way of making something happen?
"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?
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?
The government never paid him a million dollars.
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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"
> He knows deep inside information into what surveillance programs the NSA operates. I assume any application of that information would have him arrested too.
Or was your comment sarcastic irony?
Buy security from a company run by someone who lied to Congress? Um... yeah.
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The point is how is it acceptable that a previously-public-servant can have insider knowledge about "secret" government patents and he can obtain a license to use the technology but I cannot? That's absurd and an abuse of power and privilege.
Did it say he was going to use secret patents? Or just that he was going to use NSA patents? Because the NSA maintains a list of patented technologies that they offer to the public on various terms: http://www.nsa.gov/research/_files/tech_transfers/nsa_techno...