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How a Team of Geeks Cracked the Spy Trade
drunken_boxer777 sends us to The Wall Street Journal for a lengthy article on a small tech company, Palantir Technologies, that is making the CIA, Pentagon, and FBI take notice. The submitter adds, "And yes, their company name is a reference to what you think it is." "One of the latest entrants into the government spy-services marketplace, Palantir Technologies has designed what many intelligence analysts say is the most effective tool to date to investigate terrorist networks. The software's main advance is a user-friendly search tool that can scan multiple data sources at once, something previous search tools couldn't do. That means an analyst who is following a tip about a planned terror attack, for example, can more quickly and easily unearth connections among suspects, money transfers, phone calls and previous attacks around the globe. ... With Palantir's software 'you can actually point to examples where it was pretty clear that lives were saved.'"
Yes, and we know who gets to keep the chief Palantir don't we? It always depresses me how engineers can be so smart and so morally bankrupt at the same time.
'What did you do a work today, honey?' 'Oh, I made a neat tool that makes invading privacy and abusing human rights even more trivial!'
Hate to karma whore, but no one else seems to have bothered.
The palantir is a crystal ball from the LOTR universe. It allows the user to see virtually any part of the world.
Palantir Technologies have designed a user-friendly search tool that can scan multiple data sources at once.
I was afraid they were Sarah Palin Volunteers!
-Rick
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