Former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, Now Former EC-Council (C|EH)

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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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