Stephen Colbert gave the closing keynote speech at the RSA Conference – USA 2014 on February 28th, 2014 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, where he pitched his new start up ‘CloudFog’.
Following his speech, Stephen took questions from the assembled audience:
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Privacy rights groups are calling on comedian Stephen Colbert to cancel his guest speaker appearance at a conference organised by RSA, the security firm accused of accepting millions from the National Security Agency to weaken encryption software.
The host of Comedy Central’s Colbert Report is due to be the closing speaker at RSA’s Annual Conference in San Francisco in February. A number of security experts scheduled to speak at the conference have already dropped out following reports that RSA was paid $10m by the NSA to distribute a flawed encryption that allowed the security agency to bypass security protections on personal computers and other products.
The Guardian reported last September that the NSA was using a battery of methods to undermine encryption, the codes used to keep users’ data private online. Last month Reuters revealed that RSA was paid $10m by the NSA to incorporate a weakened algorithm into an encryption product called BSafe that would allow the spy agency easier access to protected information.
What do you think Hubsters? Should Stephen cancel his appearance? Call out the RSA’s wrong doings to their faces? Or perhaps something else. What do you think Stephen has up his sleeve?
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Stephen Colbert gave the closing keynote speech at the RSA Conference – USA 2014 on February 28th, 2014 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, where he pitched his new start up ‘CloudFog’.
Following his speech, Stephen took questions from the assembled audience:
Continue reading
What do you think Hubsters? Should Stephen cancel his appearance? Call out the RSA’s wrong doings to their faces? Or perhaps something else. What do you think Stephen has up his sleeve?
Continue reading