Former NSA director had thousands personally invested in obscure tech firms

[dixiegrrrrl]

Keith Alexander, who served as its director from August 2005 until March 2014, had thousands of dollars of investments during his tenure in a handful of technology firms.

Note: defense and other firms that benefited from Gov contracts.

He also had as much as $15,000 invested in Datascension, a "data gathering and research company."
Public trades in the firm were suspended by the Securities and Exchange Commission in August 2014 due to "a lack of current and accurate information" about it.

The former NSA director also had investments as recently as 2013 up to $15,000 in RF Micro Devices, a company that makes "high-performance semiconductor components" for "aerospace and defense markets," among others. Federal records show that RF Micro Devices has done $10.5 million worth of business with the government, including $9.5 million of the Department of Defense (which could include the NSA).

Oh, and what is he doing NOW, just a few months after leaving his long tenure at NSA?

Since leaving the NSA, Alexander has founded a company called IronNet Cybersecurity, which offers protection services to banks for up to $1 million per month.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/former-nsa-director-had-thousands-personally-invested-in-obscure-tech-firms/

[Downwinder]

1. With the recent data breaches,

business should be good in the protection business.

[Electric Monk]

6. Ah yes, the "protection business"...

[Octafish]

2. (In the voice of SPECTRE No. 1) ''Imagine how many Apple Computers that knowledge represents?''

Know your BFEE: The Carlyle Group owns Booz Allen Hamilton.

[Thinkingabout]

3. Unless he had insider trading information as our Congressional members have I dont think

It is illegal.

[Aerows]

4. Our Congressional members

are just as corrupt as he is. Why that amount of insider trading is allowed is beyond me - like to Pluto beyond me.

There are a bare handful of people in Congress that aren't corrupt pieces of crap that should inhabit Martha Stewart's cell for the rest of their accursed lives.

[OilemFirchen]

5. Wowgarble.

Anyone twisting investments in RFMD and Pericom into a sinister plot needs to follow my MRLW suggestion:

More reading.
Less writing.

[OnyxCollie]

7. K&R. nt

[Octafish]

8. How would he know which ones to invest in?

Easy, if he uses Carlyle Group and Booz Allen Hamilton.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/15696-behind-the-curtain-booz-allen-hamilton-and-its-owner-the-carlyle-group

He knows the owners and operators.