09.25.13
He’s dead, Jim
I had National Security Agency director Keith Alexander pegged as one of the finest ministers of witless propaganda in service to the national security Bund after seeing a videotaped appearance of him before a crowd of DC sycophants, one where he delivered the now infamous claim that Chinese cyber-spying was bringing about the biggest transfer of wealth in history.
It was, Alexander implied, America’s economic future going up in smoke.
Most Americans still don’t know his name but now he gets lampooned in comic strips.
Yes, wow, Keith Alexander loves science-fiction movies. He is a nerd, as this great pic from a DefCon conference two years ago shows. (Since le affair de Snowden, he has been disinvited.)
Young hackers, listen to Keith Alexander, a tech chicken-head biter just like you, and please save our futures and the American economy from Chinese cyberwar.
Gag me. Next year, or perhaps a little later, he will be cashing in the chips as head of cyberwar rent-seeking at one of the big arms manufacturers.
And this is still perfect.
Keith Alexander — from the archives.