Risky Business #334 -- Brian Snow reflects on 34 years at NSA, Snowden

A fascinating chat with a 34-year veteran of NSA...
14 Aug 2014 » Risky Business

On this week's show we're having an extended chat with 34-year NSA veteran Brian Snow. During his career he rose to director level -- he acted as technical director of three divisions within the agency -- before he retired in 2006.

Brian joins us to talk about the Snowden disclosures and how the NSA's culture changed post 9/11.

Brian also had some great comments on quantum crypto concerns that I've broken out into a separate podcast - I've put that one in the RB2 feed along with a recording of a panel I hosted at the Splendour in the Grass music festival a few weeks ago. You can find them in the RB2 feed.

This week's show is brought to you by Tenable Network Security, thanks to them, and in this week's sponsor interview we're chatting with Tenable CEO Ron Gula about continuous monitoring.

Adam Boileau joins us for this week's news, as does special guest Andrew Colley.

Show notes

Why surveillance companies hate the iPhone - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11/why-surveil...

Edward Snowden: The Untold Story | Threat Level | WIRED
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/#ch-1

Snowden: I Left the NSA Clues, But They Couldn't Find Them | Threat Level | WIRED
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/snowden-breadcrumbs/

Blackphone DEF CON Vulnerabilities Difficult to Exploit | Threatpost | The first stop for security news
http://threatpost.com/fog-lifts-on-rooted-blackphone-merry-go-round/107711

Techno-Archaeologists Used an Abandoned McDonald's to Hijack a Satellite | Motherboard
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/techno-archaeologists-used-an-abandoned...

Anonymous Posts St. Louis Police Dispatch Tapes From Day of Ferguson Shooting | Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/anonymous-releases-st-louis-...

Dan Tentler (Viss) on Twitter
https://twitter.com/viss

Obama picks former Googler to head federal tech overhaul - CNET
http://www.cnet.com/news/obama-picks-former-googler-to-head-federal-tech...

Millions of PCs Affected by Mysterious Computrace Backdoor | Threatpost | The first stop for security news
http://threatpost.com/millions-of-pcs-affected-by-mysterious-computrace-...

Study: Uyghur Remain in Crosshairs of Targeted Attacks | Threatpost | The first stop for security news
http://threatpost.com/study-confirms-uyghur-remain-in-crosshairs-of-targ...

The Dole Bludger's Revenge | newmatilda.com
https://newmatilda.com/2014/08/12/dole-bludgers-revenge

Disqus Patches CSRF, Other Flaws in Plugin | Threatpost | The first stop for security news
http://threatpost.com/disqus-patches-csrf-other-flaws-in-plugin/107738

Authentication Bypass Bug Fixed in BlackBerry Z10 | Threatpost | The first stop for security news
http://threatpost.com/authentication-bypass-bug-fixed-in-blackberry-z10/...

IE to Block Older ActiveX Controls, Starting with Java | Threatpost | The first stop for security news
http://threatpost.com/ie-to-block-older-activex-controls-starting-with-j...

Adobe, Microsoft Push Critical Security Fixes - Krebs on Security
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/08/adobe-microsoft-push-critical-securit...

Book alleges dirty National Party politics; Greens, Slater to lay complaints - National - NZ Herald News
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11308458

Q&A: Malcolm Turnbull on data retention - Networking - Security - Software - Telco/ISP - News - iTnews.com.au
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/390859,qa-malcolm-turnbull-on-data-retenti...

PILOTS EP | PILOTS
http://pilotsmusicau.bandcamp.com/releases