The Admiral Mike rogs its new Director NSA he didn't get an invite this year to either major hacking conventions (Black Hat and Def Con) as he did last year with his predecessor Keith Alexander at Def Con.
So while hackers prepare to gather in Las Vegas, the leadership of the US National Security Agency probably won't trip.
Vanee Vines, an NSA spokesman, confirmed Rogers' absence from conferences, and said he did not know if he'd been invited to conferences. He also said he did not know if there would be another NSA staff member.
A spokeswoman for Black Hat, Meredith Corley, said: "We are meeting to talk to all members of the security community, both public and private. We did not call in Admiral Mike Rogers this year. "
US intelligence services will of course have some representation. A keynote speaker at Black Hat, starting Saturday, will be Dan Geer, an information security specialist who currently serves as the In-Q-Tel security chief, the technology arm invested by the CIA and the wider community of information services.
Def Con representatives through convention founder Jeff Moss publicly called on federal officials governmentto take a "time out" and stay away. (Moss is a member Department of Internal Security Advisory Committee.)
Recall that Rogers' predecessor, Keith Alexander, made an appearance at Def Con in 2012 urging "the best of the community" to work for the NSA and its military twin, the US. Cyber Command, while its employees serviceThey distributed leaflets to the participants.
We recall Keith Alexander's speech because he then answered a question from the audience, saying, "the story that states that we have millions or even hundreds of millions of surveillance files is completely false."
But the tech community seems to be watching and reacting. Of course, the "grounding" of the intelligence services may be a reaction, but this does not mean that there will not be government hackers in the congress, ή ότι πάντα οι μυστικές υπηρεσίες θα αναζητούν προσωπικό από τους συμμετέχοντες.
At least while there they will have the opportunity to listen to the presentations of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU that will speak on topics such as "Blind the surveillance state" and "The year of digital freedom of citizens", or in English respectively "Blinding the surveillance state ”and“ The year in digital civil liberties ”.
