The director of the US National Security Agency on Monday sought allies at an elite technology conference amid lingering distrust about widespread online snooping.
Admiral Michael Rogers, who heads US Cyber Command as well as directing the NSA, stated his case at the opening of a Wall Street Journal WSJDLive conference here.
"We increasingly live in an acrimonious environment where differences in perspective are made almost personal," Rogers said.
"Government is largely distrusted. We have got to work our way through things and find out how we are going to work together."
Rogers avoided being pinned down regarding whether he favored having US tech companies install "back doors" that intelligence agents could use to get into systems or devices.
(Score: 2, Redundant) by fritsd on Wednesday October 21 2015, @04:32PM
It can't be difficult to win over geeks to join the NSA.
All he has to do is to promise them (on punishment of death if they blab about it) that they can sometimes sit in his colleague's Captain Picard chair [theregister.co.uk] and yell "make it so" at their henchmen :-).