General Who Oversaw NSA Surveillance Collection Joins Amazon’s Board Of Directors
“This is terrifying. Ex-NSA folks directly involved in their work subverting commercial crypto, now running applied crypto for AWS.
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Retired U.S. Gen. Keith Alexander, who served as the director of the National Security Agency from August 2005 to March 2014, joined Amazon’s Board of Directors he is the General Who Oversaw NSA Surveillance Collection
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/09/09/general-who-oversaw-nsa-surveillance-collection-joins-amazons-board-of-directors/
Amazon, which says it “never participated” in the NSA’s PRISM program that allowed the government to obtain data from companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft, hasn’t been immune to criticism over how and what data it collects, including from its voice-recognition device Amazon Echo.
Snowden shared his thoughts on Twitter. “It turns out ‘Hey Alexa’ is short for ‘Hey Keith Alexander.’ Yes, the Keith Alexander personally responsible for the unlawful mass surveillance programs that caused a global scandal.
How it started ———— How’s it going?
This is terrifying. Ex-NSA folks directly involved in their work subverting commercial crypto, now running applied crypto for AWS. https://t.co/zSRRvMfitr
— Eleanor Saitta (@Dymaxion) February 4, 2021
I was trying to be really low-key on this one, so let me make it really blunt. There is every reason to believe the NSA tried to subvert commercial cryptography in the 2000s, and now one of the architects of that work runs applied crypto at Amazon.
I was trying to be really low-key on this one, so let me make it really blunt. There is every reason to believe the NSA tried to subvert commercial cryptography in the 2000s, and now one of the architects of that work runs applied crypto at Amazon.
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