Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio who <edit> claims to have </edit> resisted NSA spying is out of prison (2013)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30...
You do people like Stamos a huge disservice by drawing this comparison. People like Nacchio are exploiting the good work real privacy advocates do, for their own personal enrichment.
[1] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-ns... [2] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/more_on_the_n...
Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio who resisted NSA spying is out of prison
Nacchio's imprisonment has nothing to do with NSA spying; it has to do with his efforts to bilk Qwest shareholders out of their money. Those efforts are well-documented.
Or it's possible for people to be dual-natured: capable both of flagrant chicanery and abuse, as well as acts of conviction and principled defiance.
The reality, though, is that his tenure at Qwest appears broadly similar to the kinds of bullshit that was rife in corporate America at the time: accounting scandals, entirely unrelated to Qwest's government contracts, that boosted apparent growth and drove share prices higher than the fundamentals of the business could possibly justify.
Google, for instance, [qwest kmc telecom].
