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Many Palantir employees, including high level ones, have made little secret of their participation on Hacker News, mentioning their company in posts here. You

Many Palantir employees, including high level ones, have made little secret of their participation on Hacker News, mentioning their company in posts here. You may recall they were involved in plotting to destroy journalist Glen Greenwald and his family. http://www.salon.com/2011/02/15/palantir/ http://www.salon.com/2011/02/15/palantir/ Plotting to destroy journalists who out government corruption and illegal behavior. Can't think of anything more undemocratic, actually the correct description is that an organization that plots to destroy journalists can not be described as anything other than a terrorist organization which is at war with the american people. But these terrorists at Palantir are proud of their affiliation with this terrorist crime syndicate. http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Palantir http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Palantir From posts on HN we see either that fascism and a hatred of freedom and democracy are extremely common in the tech industry OR there are a lot of organized sock puppet and persona accounts here. I personally think the latter is more likely - look at the "top voted" comment from a 1 day old account. Legit votes pushing it to the top? No way.

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pstuart 13y ago
So when do we start the campaign questioning Peter Thiel's role in this?
rozap 13y ago
I know we often try to keep it civil around here, but shame on them. Actually, let me rephrase, Fuck Palantir. There is a point at which I disregard the technical hurdles that they overcome, due to the fact that they're at odds with our constitution. They are far, far past that point.
- droithomme 13y ago
  Yeah, the things they are up to are bad. There's another thread on HN right now about Palantir's involvement with mobile license plate readers and the extent to which these are photographing and tracking the movements of tens of millions of people without warrant or cause and feeding the results into intelligence fusion centers. The article below notes the case of a security consultant who filed a request for his own info and found he had been photographed 112 times by just one of these programs, including one photo that was a photo of his daughters in the driveway of his own house, apparently taken by cameras installed on randomly passing police cars which just scan in everything they see and feed it to computers for analysis. http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=35851 http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=35851 http://cironline.org/reports/license-plate-readers-let-police-collect-millions-records-drivers-4883 http://cironline.org/reports/license-plate-readers-let-polic... Anonymous got a lucky break and found out about what was really going on at a few of these firms. There are a lot more firms and it isn't going to be so easy for grey hats to break in and release documents in the future. This doesn't mean that these firms aren't still engaging in widespread programs that make the Stasi look like a child's birthday game.

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pstuart 13y ago

So when do we start the campaign questioning Peter Thiel's role in this?

rozap 13y ago

I know we often try to keep it civil around here, but shame on them. Actually, let me rephrase, Fuck Palantir. There is a point at which I disregard the technical hurdles that they overcome, due to the fact that they're at odds with our constitution. They are far, far past that point.

droithomme 13y ago
Yeah, the things they are up to are bad. There's another thread on HN right now about Palantir's involvement with mobile license plate readers and the extent to which these are photographing and tracking the movements of tens of millions of people without warrant or cause and feeding the results into intelligence fusion centers. The article below notes the case of a security consultant who filed a request for his own info and found he had been photographed 112 times by just one of these programs, including one photo that was a photo of his daughters in the driveway of his own house, apparently taken by cameras installed on randomly passing police cars which just scan in everything they see and feed it to computers for analysis. http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=35851 http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=35851 http://cironline.org/reports/license-plate-readers-let-police-collect-millions-records-drivers-4883 http://cironline.org/reports/license-plate-readers-let-polic... Anonymous got a lucky break and found out about what was really going on at a few of these firms. There are a lot more firms and it isn't going to be so easy for grey hats to break in and release documents in the future. This doesn't mean that these firms aren't still engaging in widespread programs that make the Stasi look like a child's birthday game.