Stephen Colbert at RSA Conference 2014 – Full Audio

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by austinheap • 12 years ago

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drakaal• 12 years ago

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...

haberman• 12 years ago

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

Protip: have a writing staff.

awwstn• 12 years ago

Having a writing staff may get you part way there. Colbert is really smart and equally thoughtful and passionate, and I think these are the qualities that lead to his work never appearing "phoned in."

[disclosure, I guess: I once interned at The Daily Show and absolutely loved my experience, so I'm probably biased toward Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert]

higherpurpose2• 12 years ago

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.

_dark_matter_• 12 years ago

Don't you usually exchange public keys?

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IgorPartola2• 12 years ago

What's the joke? I don't really feel like hunting for it in the audio.

sjwright• 12 years ago

A euphemism for casual sex.

datr• 12 years ago

The link to the HD version should be: http://www.austinheap.com/assets/rsaconf2014/Stephen%20Colbe...

garric• 12 years ago

Well, yeah... but the difference between 320kbps and 96kbps is fairly negligible with all of that background noise.

steffenfrost• 12 years ago

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

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.

mpyne2• 12 years ago

With that said, the fact that he rips NSA doesn't mean he (or his alter ego) supports Snowden: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57619771-83/colbert-turns-h...

serf• 12 years ago

so I suppose it's his character being paid by the criminals at RSA, rather than him himself?

That's reassuring.

higherpurpose2• 12 years ago

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.

sbierwagen2• 12 years ago

It's not shocking that a crowd of government contractors wouldn't support Snowden.

evilduck• 12 years ago

At least not when being filmed.

kefs• 12 years ago

I'm unsure if this is Colbert's character speaking, but during the Q&A he figured the logical end for Snowden would be his return home & pardon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-ZGlKw6-hk#t=45

austinheap• 12 years ago

He did the entire Q&A out of character as Colbert -- with the T. Was a nice juxtaposition to his prepared remarks which were obviously in character.

jasonkester2• 12 years ago

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

sbierwagen2• 12 years ago

RSA is named after its founders: Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Len Adleman.

baking• 12 years ago

Probably more accurate to say the company was named after the RSA algorithm that was named after its inventors.

wtallis• 12 years ago

Do you have the same complaint when HP makes the news?

jasonkester2• 12 years ago

From hp.com:

  © 2014 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

So no. They do in fact define their own name on their website.

notproductive• 12 years ago

"We have solid proof that this program has saved zero lives, that's more then I can say for our drone program" lmao

jakeogh• 12 years ago

Video (phonecam, no Q&A):

P1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7gGtVScrQo

P2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3QH4d4qNOQ

Stephen Colbert at RSA Conference 2014 – Full Audio

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