SAN FRANCISCO—Art Coviello, executive vice president of EMC and executive chairman of RSA, the security division of EMC, kicked off the RSA Conference 2014 this week with a keynote address about the state of U.S. government snooping, privacy and cyber-warfare.
The RSA Conference has been shrouded in controversy from the outset over the allegation that RSA Security worked with the National Security Agency (NSA) to undermine cryptography security. It’s an allegation that ended up spinning out an alternate conference called TrustyCon.
Rather than shy away from the controversy, Coviello tackled it head on. Twenty years ago, he noted, RSA was leading the charge for privacy and now is being accused of being on the other side of the battle, enabling the government to snoop on individuals.
“Has RSA done work with the NSA? Yes, but that fact has been a matter of public record for a decade,” Coviello said.
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Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.