Days before that she gave a talk on legal issues faced by Internet service providers (ISP) at the Black Hat Briefings, a more serious set of meetings for security professionals and law enforcement officials that precedes the more festive DefCon.
The NSA director, General Keith Alexander, is coming under scrutiny after he told a crowd gathered at the DefCon hacker conference that the spy agency "absolutely" does not collect data from and maintain files on American citizens.