[HN Gopher] NSA Chief Who Oversaw Sweeping Domestic Phone Survei...
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       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...
        
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