Counterpoint to a number of posts already on here regarding the bad for privacy angle. Maybe not a terrible idea to have a board member with significant experience understanding the threat nation states and other larger private hacking concerns pose to one of the United States’ largest cloud providers?
I understand this is all too incestuous, but I also can’t really say it’s a bad move.
Keith Alexander is a well-known perjurer [1], he should be behind bars, not earning millions sitting on the board of directors of companies worth trillions. There's nothing "not bad" about this move, at least for our society seen as a whole.
These are merely the crimes we know about for a fact. Having been caught out like this in a position of power the right thing to do is investigate him fully. It's scarcely credible that there's are the only crimes he committed in that position of power.
> reveal highly classified information to the entire planet during a televised hearing?
I mean he could just said that he cant't answer that question because its't highly classified and this hearing is televised to entire planet, instead of lying
Because if that information were released it would cause significant damage to the country. Why on earth is my company's TLS private key kept a secret from all the employees?
Companies regularly monitor employee activities on corporate networks and computers. They have a responsibility to make sure employees aren't using the company's assets to break the law, steal corporate information, leak private information, or irresponsibly download and run malware. If you tell employees exactly what the company is monitoring and the exact methods they use to monitor activity, the monitoring becomes useless because people will subvert it.
I understand this is all too incestuous, but I also can’t really say it’s a bad move.