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NSA Shopping For Data Mining Tech

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the anyone-got-a-good-deal-for-uncle-sam dept.

prostoalex writes "The National Security Agency paid a visit to Silicon Valley venture capitalists, the New York Times learned, to talk about potentially 'interesting' technologies that the Feds would be interested in purchasing. Data mining technologies that could link arbitrary facts into logical events and find dependencies, technologies for quick voice transcription - all these technologies usually get to market faster if developed by private companies."

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  1. Open source community by October_30th · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why didn't they turn to the open source community? They wouldn't have to pay for it and they'd get free support, too.

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