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Stephen Colbert at RSA Conference 2014 – Full Audio

82 points| austinheap | 12 years ago |blog.austinheap.com | reply

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[+] haberman|12 years ago|reply
Very funny and I'm impressed at the number of in-jokes, he must have really taken some time to get acquainted with security culture. His joke about "exchanging private keys" was hilarious.

Also here is an abbreviated video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsaXEKtLehs

[+] seiji|12 years ago|reply
Protip: have a writing staff.
[+] IgorPartola|12 years ago|reply
What's the joke? I don't really feel like hunting for it in the audio.
[+] higherpurpose|12 years ago|reply
It was funny, but inaccurate. Don't you usually exchange public keys? Of course if he said public, then the joke wouldn't have made sense, which is probably why he said it that way.
[+] drakaal|12 years ago|reply
Despite the "rivalry" between me and Colbert for the title "Greatest Living American". I have a lot of respect for Colbert. He is an entertainer but he is a political activist. John Stewart who is more famous and better paid is a Comedian Journalist, but Colbert is a Activist Comedian.

Colbert is the kind of critical thinker we need more of in politics.

-Brandon Wirtz (Former Greatest Living American)

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2007/05/11/the-greatest-goo...

[+] notproductive|12 years ago|reply
"We have solid proof that this program has saved zero lives, that's more then I can say for our drone program" lmao
[+] steffenfrost|12 years ago|reply
I was disappointed to see so little support for Edward Snowden by the crowd.

Colbert's view is that Snowden is a criminal.

[+] dubfan|12 years ago|reply
Stephen Colbert plays a character that satirizes conservative jingoistic "patriotic" mouthpieces of the Republican party, the kind typically found on Fox News and some talk radio stations.
[+] higherpurpose|12 years ago|reply
Look at this way - everyone who still went to the RSAC were okay with RSA putting a backdoor in for the NSA. So you can probably imagine they're not exactly fervent supporters of Snowden.
[+] sbierwagen|12 years ago|reply
It's not shocking that a crowd of government contractors wouldn't support Snowden.
[+] jasonkester|12 years ago|reply
You've got to credit these guys for going the extra mile to keep you from finding out what their conference is about. Between this site and the conference website it links to, they use the acronym "RSA" twenty six times without ever once defining it.

Note that googling "RSA" gives a dozen contradictory definitions, from various things that call themselves the RSA. The conference here makes the list about halfway down, but again, without any explanation what the acronym stands for or what it is.

And of course, wikipedia just gives a two page list of RSAs for one to choose from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA

[+] sbierwagen|12 years ago|reply
RSA is named after its founders: Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Len Adleman.
[+] wtallis|12 years ago|reply
Do you have the same complaint when HP makes the news?