DEF CON to host NSA Chief General Alexander
July 24, 2012
(Credit: Def Con)
General Keith B. Alexander, Director of the NSA and Commander, U.S. Cyber Command will speak at Def Con on Friday, Security Week reports.
General Alexander will be giving a talk titled “Shared Values, Shared Responsibility,” which will focus on the shared core values between the hacker community and the government’s cyber community.
Namely, the vision of the Internet as a positive force, the fact that information increases value by sharing, the respect and protection of privacy and civil liberties, and the opposition to malicious and criminal behavior.
The talk’s overview looks as if General Alexander will attempt to garner some help from the hacker community — not surprising considering that the government has been working to hire legit hackers for years and has done a decent job doing so.
Def Con runs July 26–29 at the Rio in Las Vegas, admission is $200 cash only at the door.
Comments (5)
by longnow
Shared values shared blah blah blah. Hacking ppl is
as valuable if not more than hacking their computers.
IOW hacking the brain and what goes on there
indirectly through the vocal cords, the breathe, & brain stem.
And what is all this nonsense about reading thoughts
with brain implants & MRI imaging?
Why bother going into the brain directly
for anything unless it’s a tumor to be excised.
by Gorden Russell
Jamie and Joe. I’m guessing that you’ve already read the article on this newsletter about informatics sharing in medical research. While reading it, I got a terrible feeling about what criminals could do with data that medical researchers are innocently sharing.
by cletus
agreed… look at the pithy title of the speech, bunch of corporate-speak. The only ‘values’ that I see from these types are whatever is spit out of the latest think-tank or supercomputer war simulation. They view the public as a nusince to be ”neutralized’ with ‘psyops’ so they can keep slaughtering with impunity and gathering up the worlds resources. I can see this guy sitting in a ‘spies like us’ or ‘wargames’ bunker calmly ordering the deaths of 5 billion people if it left them with a 0.001% statistical advantage amongst the survivors, which is them of course, not joe public.
by Joe
I buy it. Spying is a lot of hard work. I’m sure they’d rather be at a local strip club or something. Who saves us from hackers that spy on us? I’m not talking government here, I mean civilians. There’s ID theft, theft, botnets, phishing and so much more like kiddie porn, human trafficking that starts online and some of those webcam girls are part of that, and so on. I’m not worried much about the NSA peeking at the photos I take of my cats or the Suicide Girl dot com photos I’ve checked out. Those guys are ok in my book especially when you compare them with what’s out there. If only I had $200 plus the gas to spare with hotel.
by Jamie
Man, I really want to agree with this guy and buy into his speel. But I have this cynical doubt nagging at me. I just turned 46 so maybe I am just getting old and cynical as this is starting to happen too often whenever I listen to the higher levels of the military, police services or even the government for that matter. I get the feeling they are just saying what we want to hear so we will stop paying attention.
I am more and more like my dad every day, I swear.