[Former NSA Chief] Keith Alexander's Unethical Get-Rich-Quick Plan

[ksen]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...xanders-unethical-get-rich-quick-plan/375367/

Keith Alexander is trying to explain himself. The former director of the NSA stoked astonishment when reports surfaced that he would ask from $600,000 to as much as $1 million per month as a cybersecurity consultant. What could make him so valuable, save the highly classified secrets in his head? A congressman went so far as to speculate that he'd be selling state secrets. But it isn't so, Alexander says. In an interview with Foreign Policy, he offers a new accounting:

Until these guys start swinging from lampposts I'm finding it harder and harder to gin up some outrage.

 

[barbos]

The guy who could not catch Snowden wants $1mi/year, sure

 

[ksen]

$1 mill/yr? That's silly.

He wants $1 mill/month.

 

[barbos]

Yeah, I made a typo.
Still, I would not pay him anything, cause it is clear scam.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

What does he offer for $1 million/month that you couldn't get equally well from a Chinese security consultant for $100,000/month? They've stolen all of your secrets anyways, so you may as well take advantage of the savings from outsourcing the position.

 

[ksen]

That's a nicely secured server you got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it.

 

[Mageth]

Switching from the government tit to a private tit is an old and well-known method of making $$$.

(Not saying it makes it right...)

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Switching from the government tit to a private tit is an old and well-known method of making $$$.

(Not saying it makes it right...)

That isn't the issue as much as is the $1 million a month fee for consulting. The cost of being hacked is probably lower than his fee!

 

[dendrast]

Switching from the government tit to a private tit is an old and well-known method of making $$$.

(Not saying it makes it right...)

That isn't the issue as much as is the $1 million a month fee for consulting. The cost of being hacked is probably lower than his fee!

He's planning on being a government contractor.