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NSA Luring Stanford Students; Claims Rewards Outweigh Any Google-Apple Benefits

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PALO ALTO (KCBS) We come in peace. That was the message delivered by the head of the National Security Agency (NSA) to a Silicon Valley crowd as the nations spy chief is searching for recruits.

The governments top cyber spy made a stop at Stanford University on Monday with a message that they wanted to mend fences with the tech community.

Admiral Michael Rogers, director of the NSA, spoke to about 100 students and professors and said he understood why there is mistrust of the government.

Many tech companies have increased encryption in the wake of the Edward Snowden release of classified documents that detailed the NSAs spying techniques. However, Roger stressed the importance of public and private partnerships in cybersecurity; the same message that he recently delivered to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

You cant start out by distrusting each other with, Hey, you cant trust the government because theyre big brother. Or, you cant trust the private sector because theyre all about money. That is not what is going to work, he said.

Rogers also encouraged Stanford Students to consider a career with the NSA, saying that they offer rewards that no benefits package from Google or Apple could match; with opportunities to do some neat stuff you cant do anywhere else.

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NSA Head Makes Nice with Silicon Valley Over Privacy

After the FBI and Britain's top spy agency criticized Silicon Valley for encrypting and protecting user data, Michael Rogers, director of the NSA, came to Palo Alto to make peace. "I am not one who jumps up and down and says either side is fundamentally wrong," Rogers told a crowd of students and professors at Stanford University on Monday. "I understand what drives each side to their viewpoint on this." He said that he understood FBI Director James Comey's desire for "some mechanism on the technical side" where, "using a legal framework," encrypted data could be accessed by the government.

He also claimed that the NSA did not know about or exploit the Heartbleed bug before news of it broke in April. When it comes to cybersecurity threats, Rogers said it was "unrealistic to expect the private sector to withstand the actions of nation-states," but equally unrealistic to "expect the government to deal with this all by itself." Rogers also tried to woo away computer science students from lucrative Silicon Valley jobs. "We are going to give you the opportunity to do some neat things that you can't legally do anywhere else," he said.

First published November 4 2014, 10:55 AM

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Former NSA chief invested in company tied to AT&T

General Keith Alexander, former director of the National Security Agency, was found to have invested in a technology company tied to AT&T and iPhone sales.

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) During his time as director of the National Security Agency, General Keith Alexander made investments in a technology company closely tied to AT&T.

According to a story by the Daily Beast, Alexander bought and sold tens of thousands of dollars of stock in a New Jersey-based company called Synchronoss Technologies Inc., which helps synchronize personal information across multiple devices.

The company also provided AT&T T, -0.14% with technology that helped it lock iPhones onto their network when they were the sole distributor, which the report said would have helped Alexander profit.

While Alexander was running the NSA, the agency was pouring AT&T subscribers phone records into a database and had also installed surveillance equipment in some AT&T offices.

Alexanders financial forms show he bought shares in Synchronoss worth between $1,001 and $15,000 after Synchronoss shares plummeted by 43% after it announced materially lower growth expectations in May 2008. Alexanders financial forms show he made less than $201 in 2008, essentially breaking even on his investing portfolio. This means he potentially lost money on the Synchronoss trades.

The news comes after it was revealed Alexander traded shares in commodities firms, including the Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan and the Aluminum Company of China, during his time as NSA chief. However, an ethics officer at the agency said no conflicts of interests appear to exist.

Representatives for Alexanders consulting firm, Ironnet Cybersecurity Inc., could not be reached for comment but in October, the NSA released a statement on ethics saying that it aids employees in identifying conflicts of interest and agency ethics counselors perform an independent review and when conflicts are found, the agency finds a suitable remedy.

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