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 character to what you think it is." "One of the latest contestants into the empire spy-services marketplace, Palantir Technologies has designed what many report analysts say is the most productive tool to date to investigate revolutionary networks. The software's main advance is a untroublesome search tool that can scan indiscriminate data sources at once, thing early search tools couldn't do. That means an analyst who is coming a tip about a planned terror attack, for example, can more quickly and easily unearth domination among suspects, money transfers, phone calls and precipitate attacks around the globe. ... With Palantir's ms-dos 'you can absolutely point to examples where it was pretty clear that lives were saved.'"

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