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Re:NSA director heckled on stage at Black Hat security confe... by tptacek on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @04:12PM (#6136525)
I think he went to Black Hat because unlike Defcon, Black Hat is run by a large multinational media company with a PR department trained and motivated to secure keynote speakers who will attract the most press attention to the conference.
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Re:NSA director heckled on stage at Black Hat security confe... by kunai on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @04:21PM (#6136572)
Alexander actually spoke at Defcon last year and garnered quite a bit of attention regardless, so I don't quite think this is the case.
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Re:NSA director heckled on stage at Black Hat security confe... by replax on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @04:35PM (#6136656)
Exactly! Actually, Alexander was asked the Question of NSA datacollection after his talk, basically it went down like this:

Q: "[..]Does the NSA really keep a file on anyone? [...]"

A: "[..] Frist, no, we don't [...]"

Absolutely astonishing!

listen/watch here: http://youtu.be/tz0ejKersnM?t=33m2s

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Re:NSA director heckled on stage at Black Hat security confe... by Im_Mr_Manager on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @07:51PM (#6137645)
What is astonishing by that? They can easily be splicing fiber cables taking a copy of most Internet traffic and recording either the actual call or just the from/to/length info and his answer is totally correct. It is actually a really terrible question.
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