Sunday, September 26, 2010

CIA Uses Stolen Software

Court filings have shown that Netezza stole software intellectual property from a partner company and sold it to the CIA. Though the software was known to produce incorrect results, the CIA relied on the software to target people for remote execution via drone weaponry.

CIA used 'illegal, inaccurate code to target kill drones'
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"My reaction was one of stun, amazement that they want to kill people with my software that doesn't work," he said.
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"For some strange reason many of the calculations are a little off, from 1 to 13 metres," wrote Joe Wiltshire, a federal account manager at Netezza.

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