http://www.infosecnews.org/former-nsa-contractor-edward-snowden-now-former-ec-council-ceh/
By William Knowles
Senior Editor
InfoSec News
July 5, 2013
The New York Times is reporting that former National Security Agency /
Booz Allen Hamilton contractor “on the lam” Edward Snowden became a
Certified Ethical Hacker in 2010.
Snowden’s resume, which has not yet been made public has been described by
those that have seen it, sheds new light about this “systems
administrator” who morphed his skills to become an information security
expert, skills that the N.S.A. and other government agencies have been
very desperate to recruit.
In July 2012, General Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security
Agency, gave the keynote address at DEF CON 20, the world’s longest
running and largest underground hacking conference, looking to recruit
hackers like Edward Snowden to work for the N.S.A.
In 2010, Snowden attained his (C|EH) “certified ethical hacker”
certificate by studying coursework that satisfied DoD Directive 8570
requirements by a company that is no stranger to controversy which has a
tendency to forgo ethics and profit off plagiarized content from other
sources.
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