[HN Gopher] NSA Chief Who Oversaw Sweeping Domestic Phone Survei... ___________________________________________________________________ NSA Chief Who Oversaw Sweeping Domestic Phone Surveillance Joins Amazon Board Author : markus_zhang Score : 63 points Date : 2020-09-09 21:56 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.zerohedge.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.zerohedge.com) | leptoniscool wrote: | Amazon does have devices listening in every home. Is the concern | here that hiring Keith Alexander would make it easier for | government to get people's conversation data? | tasogare wrote: | > Amazon does have devices listening in every home. | | No, they don't. It's a choice people make, and most aren't | buying Kindle, Echo or other near useless spying device like | that. | vikramkr wrote: | Whoever is running Amazon's PR is either really good and has | determined this won't matter, or is really really incompetent. | Based on how the PR for HQ2 in NYC went, I'm suspecting the | latter. | netsharc wrote: | Will it matter? The sheep (myself included) will still shop on | Amazon. | vikramkr wrote: | Its not like they have no competition- if people end up | trusting walmart more than amazon we could see a shift | happen. And again - HQ2. That was a huge miscalculation that | resulted in actual problems for them - they're not able to | get everything they want. | aazaa wrote: | > For those keeping score, not only does Amazon own the The | Washington Post and oversees the CIA's Commercial Cloud | Enterprise, it now has on its powerful board of directors the | most visible figure from the NSA who illegally spied on Americans | for the better part of a decade. | | This sounds tinfoil hat crazy, but here we are. Not so crazy now. | | Man in a position to have reams of compromising intel on the | current president hired by a man in an ongoing battle with the | president. | netsharc wrote: | I think he got hired because AWS likes government and military | contracts, and he has personal phone numbers of people who make | that sort of decisions. And he doesn't have them through NSA | data gathering, but because he can call these people and ask if | they'd like to have a steak dinner and talk about why they | should choose AWS... | severine wrote: | Well, the ad was right after all... | lowdose wrote: | Is this the first fruit Jeff is eating from his personal stay in | Washington? | jkhdigital wrote: | Is ZH the only source reporting this story? I mean, I love me | some ZH, but it can turn some people off so it might be better if | a less controversial outlet was reporting this... | [deleted] | greggh wrote: | Nope. I felt the same way and went looking: | | https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-adds-former-nsa-u-s-cyb... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-09-09 23:00 UTC)