Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors

Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by zip1234 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @09:30PM (#24427979)

The government has used Big Tech forever. Oracle, Microsoft, Apple products have been used by NSA+CIA for about as long as those companies have had products. Yes, those companies sell to the government. They want to make money and the government has money.

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Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by ethbr0 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @11:36PM (#24428665)

Obligatory link to Steve Blank's recounting of SV's early days (1950-1980).

https://steveblank.com/2009/04/20/the-secret-history-of-sili...

https://steveblank.com/2009/04/06/story-behind-%E2%80%9Cthe-...

https://steveblank.com/secret-history/

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Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by trenchgun on Thursday September 10, 2020 @01:52AM (#24429286)

Yep, and IBM helped nazis to run their concentration camps.

Technology is power.

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Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar... by unionpivo on Thursday September 10, 2020 @05:03AM (#24430295)

There is a difference between selling your product to government and working with government.

I am pretty sure USA government buy's plenty of stuff from Chinese companies like everbody else does. Doesn't mean Chinese companies are working with it.

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