Peter Thiel, Palantir, NSA... versus You!
https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palantir-helped-the-nsa... Top Secret Strap 1 Donald Trump has inherited the most powerful machine for spying ever devised. How this petty, vengeful man might wield and expand the sprawling American spy apparatus, already vulnerable to abuse, is disturbing enough on its own. But the outlook is even worse considering Trump’s vast preference for private sector expertise and new strategic friendship with Silicon Valley billionaire investor Peter Thiel, whose controversial (and opaque) company Palantir has long sought to sell governments an unmatched power to sift and exploit information of any kind. Thiel represents a perfect nexus of government clout with the kind of corporate swagger Trump loves. The Intercept can now reveal that Palantir has worked for years to boost the global dragnet of the NSA and its international partners, and was in fact co-created with American spies. Peter Thiel became one of the American political mainstream’s most notorious figures in 2016 (when it emerged he was bankrolling a lawsuit against Gawker Media, my former employer) even before he won a direct line to the White House. Now he brings to his role as presidential adviser decades of experience as kingly investor and token nonliberal on Facebook’s board of directors, a Rolodex of software luminaries, and a decidedly Trumpian devotion to controversy and contrarianism. But perhaps the most appealing asset Thiel can offer our bewildered new president will be Palantir Technologies, which Thiel founded with Alex Karp and Joe Lonsdale in 2004. Palantir has never masked its ambitions, in particular the desire to sell its services to the U.S. government — the CIA itself was an early investor in the startup through In-Q-Tel, the agency’s venture capital branch. But Palantir refuses to discuss or even name its government clientele, despite landing “at least $1.2 billion” in federal contracts since 2009 ...
On 02/22/2017 10:52 AM, grarpamp wrote:
https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palantir-helped-the-nsa...
Top Secret Strap 1
Donald Trump has inherited the most powerful machine for spying ever devised. How this petty, vengeful man might wield and expand the sprawling American spy apparatus, already vulnerable to abuse, is disturbing enough on its own. But the outlook is even worse considering Trump’s vast preference for private sector expertise and new strategic friendship with Silicon Valley billionaire investor Peter Thiel, whose controversial (and opaque) company Palantir has long sought to sell governments an unmatched power to sift and exploit information of any kind. Thiel represents a perfect nexus of government clout with the kind of corporate swagger Trump loves. The Intercept can now reveal that Palantir has worked for years to boost the global dragnet of the NSA and its international partners, and was in fact co-created with American spies.
Peter Thiel became one of the American political mainstream’s most notorious figures in 2016 (when it emerged he was bankrolling a lawsuit against Gawker Media, my former employer) even before he won a direct line to the White House. Now he brings to his role as presidential adviser decades of experience as kingly investor and token nonliberal on Facebook’s board of directors, a Rolodex of software luminaries, and a decidedly Trumpian devotion to controversy and contrarianism. But perhaps the most appealing asset Thiel can offer our bewildered new president will be Palantir Technologies, which Thiel founded with Alex Karp and Joe Lonsdale in 2004.
Palantir has never masked its ambitions, in particular the desire to sell its services to the U.S. government — the CIA itself was an early investor in the startup through In-Q-Tel, the agency’s venture capital branch. But Palantir refuses to discuss or even name its government clientele, despite landing “at least $1.2 billion” in federal contracts since 2009 ...
Palantir was one of Barrett Brown/ProjectPM's main foci regarding private company domestic surveillance for the US government. I have a zipped archive of ProjectPM (HTML) before Brown's arrest and concurrent takeover of PM's domain by Cloudflare. If anyone want a copy. Let me know. It's in the MegaCloud. Rr Ps. I warned BB on IRC during #OpEgypt to be careful using the 'editorial "We"' when discussing Anonymous. If I ever catch up with him a bitchslap's in order.
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Razer <g2s@riseup.net> wrote:
Palantir was one of Barrett Brown/ProjectPM's main foci regarding private company domestic surveillance for the US government. I have a zipped archive of ProjectPM (HTML) before Brown's arrest and concurrent takeover of PM's domain by Cloudflare.
If anyone want a copy. Let me know. It's in the MegaCloud.
Just post the link for people to download as they wish. Not likely to be taken down, if so a reup and repub wil fix.
On 02/23/2017 04:59 PM, grarpamp wrote:
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Razer <g2s@riseup.net> wrote:
Palantir was one of Barrett Brown/ProjectPM's main foci regarding private company domestic surveillance for the US government. I have a zipped archive of ProjectPM (HTML) before Brown's arrest and concurrent takeover of PM's domain by Cloudflare.
If anyone want a copy. Let me know. It's in the MegaCloud. Just post the link for people to download as they wish. Not likely to be taken down, if so a reup and repub wil fix.
Sorry. Don't want some hostile-entity filebot sucking all my free account bandwidth. :> Rr
On 02/23/2017 06:14 PM, Razer wrote:
On 02/23/2017 04:59 PM, grarpamp wrote:
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Razer <g2s@riseup.net> wrote:
Palantir was one of Barrett Brown/ProjectPM's main foci regarding private company domestic surveillance for the US government. I have a zipped archive of ProjectPM (HTML) before Brown's arrest and concurrent takeover of PM's domain by Cloudflare.
If anyone want a copy. Let me know. It's in the MegaCloud. Just post the link for people to download as they wish. Not likely to be taken down, if so a reup and repub wil fix.
Sorry. Don't want some hostile-entity filebot sucking all my free account bandwidth. :>
Rr
If you send it to me, I'll put it on IPFS, and post the link.
On 02/23/2017 06:14 PM, Razer wrote:
On 02/23/2017 04:59 PM, grarpamp wrote:
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Razer <g2s@riseup.net> wrote:
Palantir was one of Barrett Brown/ProjectPM's main foci regarding private company domestic surveillance for the US government. I have a zipped archive of ProjectPM (HTML) before Brown's arrest and concurrent takeover of PM's domain by Cloudflare.
If anyone want a copy. Let me know. It's in the MegaCloud. Just post the link for people to download as they wish. Not likely to be taken down, if so a reup and repub wil fix.
Sorry. Don't want some hostile-entity filebot sucking all my free account bandwidth. :>
Rr
The file (wiki.echelon2.org.tar.gz) is at https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmSeuEJjtFf5K7dLbASQeykWEFpe7hwWyrMBQGzXDCGA5r I haven't altered the archive, and have no clue what's there. So do be careful when viewing :) Maybe open in a LiveCD VM.
On 02/23/2017 08:36 PM, Mirimir wrote:
On 02/23/2017 06:14 PM, Razer wrote:
On 02/23/2017 04:59 PM, grarpamp wrote:
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Razer <g2s@riseup.net> wrote:
Palantir was one of Barrett Brown/ProjectPM's main foci regarding private company domestic surveillance for the US government. I have a zipped archive of ProjectPM (HTML) before Brown's arrest and concurrent takeover of PM's domain by Cloudflare.
If anyone want a copy. Let me know. It's in the MegaCloud. Just post the link for people to download as they wish. Not likely to be taken down, if so a reup and repub wil fix. Sorry. Don't want some hostile-entity filebot sucking all my free account bandwidth. :>
Rr
The file (wiki.echelon2.org.tar.gz) is at
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmSeuEJjtFf5K7dLbASQeykWEFpe7hwWyrMBQGzXDCGA5r
I haven't altered the archive, and have no clue what's there. So do be careful when viewing :) Maybe open in a LiveCD VM.
I worded the caveat I sent with a coupe of request in a manner similar to this:
"I HAVE NOT 'sanitized' these html pages. Perhaps use a scriptblocker for 'prophylaxsis' as I did when viewing them. I looked at a couple of page sources but haven't inspected them all."
Rr
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