CIA dumps some cash into Apache's Lucene and Solr search projects

http://thatcriticguy.com/cia-dumps-cash-apaches-lucene

by sinbsd • 17 years ago

18 8 17 years ago

Some interesting news that’s been making circulation throughout the blogosphere lately is the recent investment by In-Q-Tel (the technology arm of the CIA) into Lucid Imagination (an open source firm that provides support for Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies).

cmscritic3• 17 years ago

Good to see some promotion from the government for a change.

rjurney• 17 years ago

If you look, In-Q-Tel has made over 150 investments. There is no better customer for 'Big Data' than 'Big Brother' :)

cmscritic3• 17 years ago

Agreed.

kungfudoi• 17 years ago

Congratulations to these projects. Definitely a win for the open source community.

cmscritic3• 17 years ago

Absolutely agree

ComputerGuru• 17 years ago

...and a loss for privacy evangelists worldwide.

mblakele• 17 years ago

Primary source: http://www.iqt.org/news-and-press/press-releases/2009/Lucid_...

icey• 17 years ago

I am not sure if the powers that be are paying close attention to this sort of behavior or not, so I'm just going to mention it.

I've noticed an increasing trend of sockpuppet accounts. sinbsd and cmscritic appear to make submissions only from the same places, and comment on threads created by one or the other.

The information in this article is interesting enough that it doesn't deserve to be flagged, so I'm not really sure the best way to try to bring it up (clearly I've chosen to just comment about it for now).

CIA dumps some cash into Apache's Lucene and Solr search projects

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