CTO of NSA is moonlighting for Keith Alexander's blue-chip rent-a-cybercops

Cory Doctorow 6:50 am Sat Oct 18, 2014

Former NSA boss Alexander charges $1M/month for cybersecurity advice, but promises that he's not selling any of the state secrets from his career as a long-serving, all-seeing top spook. But he hired his protege Patrick Dowd — who still draws a paycheck from Uncle Sugar — to moonlight for his company, which has the self-parodying name "Ironnet Cybersecurity."

He's not the only ranking spook with a foot in the private security firm; the home of Teresa Shea, the chief of the NSA Signals Intelligence Directorate, is also registered as a private cybersecurity business, run by her husband. Among its assets are a private plane.

Senior NSA official moonlighting for private cybersecurity firm [Spencer Ackerman/The Guardian]

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