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> I know for a fact many NSA employees read and enjoy participating on HN There's a few Palantir[0] employees here too, Palantir being one of the many tentacle
by remx 10y ago
> I know for a fact many NSA employees read and enjoy participating on HN
There's a few Palantir[0] employees here too, Palantir being one of the many tentacles of the NSA. Infact any contractor who does work for the NSA can be found lurking moar on HackerNews. If you do enough digging around you will find them. Palantir being the more obvious example.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies
- ejcx 10y agoPalantir is not a tentacle of the NSA. Not even close.
- remx 10y agoWell according to this Wikipedia piece[0] about the NSA and Palantir: A document leaked to TechCrunch revealed that Palantir's clients as of 2013 included at least twelve groups within the U.S. government, including the CIA, DHS, NSA, FBI, CDC From: http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/11/leaked-palantir-doc-reveals-uses-specific-functions-and-key-clients/ http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/11/leaked-palantir-doc-reveals... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#cite_note-tebtecnchrun-27 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#cite_not...
- eb0la 10y agoPlease be reasonable. Having NSA and several US agencies as customers doesn't mean you are a tentacle of the NSA. Even in the case of companies owned in part by In-Q-Tel I guess the point is to make their technology available to the US goverment. Maybe 20 years ago the goverment would fund that with DARPA or something similar, but now there is an open technology market and I guess they should be investing to get their opinion heard on the direction they need the technologies to evolve.
- stagbeetle 10y ago> Please be reasonable. Having NSA and several US agencies as customers doesn't mean you are a tentacle of the NSA. You could argue that any company that actively works with the NSA to increase their coverage is a tentacle.
- dsacco 10y agoThat's such a broad definition of "tentacle" it's meaningless. We all know what "tentacle" means in this context, and it's not satisfied just by being a government contractor or provider.
- tedunangst 10y agoSo Palantir is actually twelve tentacles, no? A dodecapus?
- remx 10y agoI was thinking of some sort of Lovecraftian nightmare monster with any arbitrary amount of tentacles