Would You Hire Former NSA Boss Keith Alexander For Cybersecurity Consulting?
from the he-knows-where-the-holes-he-buried-are dept
It is, of course, no surprise that former NSA boss Keith Alexander is now setting out a shingle for consulting work in the private sector. While we'd assumed he'd latch on with something like the Chertoff Group, it appears that he's setting up his own consulting firm in which he'll help "financial institutions looking to address cybersecurity threats." Considering this is the guy who, just days earlier, was talking about why the NSA harmed internet cybersecurity, it kind of makes you wonder if he's the person you'd really trust with any sort of cybersecurity consulting. Well, unless, as Marcy Wheeler has suggested, his sales pitch is "I know where all the holes I've left in the internet are." Still, if you were a financial institution, would you rather hire someone who's spent their career trying to make the internet safer... or the guy who worked hard to make it less secure?Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Of course financial institutions aren't know for upholding honesty, ethics or the law at all (see: Inside Job, old but gold) so I'm fairly sure he'll have plenty of work.
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How many servers has he built?
What log analysis has he done?
What code has he written or debugged or modified?
Which networks has he architected?
Or to put a finer point on it: what has this guy done besides lie, lie, lie to American people? Because if that's his only area of expertise, I really have very little need for him. I can get that from ANYBODY.
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actual new business or old business as a mole?
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Re: How many servers has he built?
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I would hire him!
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National Security Secrets
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Managers SUCK
No matter where you go, there is always some form of management making the implementation or technical requirements some sort to shit slide into oblivion!
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Re: Managers SUCK
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"consulting work in the private sector"
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NO
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And his friends!
And I'd hire former FEMA director Michael "heck of a job" Brown for emergency management. And John "torture is peachy keen" Yoo to oversee human rights. And Alberto Gonzales for competent legal oversight, defending habeas corpus and of course his recollection skills. Etc. Etc.
When when you compare Bin Laden's hijackers to Bush II's appointees for sheer damage done to the America, I think those hijackers owe Bin Laden an apology.
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An NSA shell company?
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The Higher Forms of Blackmail.
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His *real* qualifications
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What, didn't he used to work for a living?
Oh, wait-he lied to the American people and got caught at it, led a government agency that spied on all of them, then also got caught at it.
No, now that I think about it, he's probably lost any credibility with HR managers.
Which is why he has to set up his own shop.
I'd be inclined to tell him to just go retire already.
He's lost any minor value as a private consultant on security matters that he once had,in such a humiliating and public way.
If he had any to begin with.
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Incompetent Noob and Failure
His idea of exercising prudence with finite tax payer funds is to recreate the bridge of the fictional USS Enterprise from Star Trek at NSA's headquarters.
I wouldn't hire Keith Alexander to pass out hand wipes in the men's bathroom.
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Hire MR. TIA?
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Hiring Alexander
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If by "Consultant"...
Otherwise I'd hire him as a Ukranian freedom fighter, I'm sure he'd be good at that too.
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Best advice you could buy
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There are no Americans infidels in Baghdad. Never
"There are no NSA-backdoors in our server. Never!"
"My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all."
"Our initial assessment is that they will all be patched."
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