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0 pointseb0la9y ago0 comments

Please be reasonable. Having NSA and several US agencies as customers doesn't mean you are a tentacle of the NSA.

Even in the case of companies owned in part by In-Q-Tel I guess the point is to make their technology available to the US goverment. Maybe 20 years ago the goverment would fund that with DARPA or something similar, but now there is an open technology market and I guess they should be investing to get their opinion heard on the direction they need the technologies to evolve.

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stagbeetle9y ago· 1 in thread

> Please be reasonable. Having NSA and several US agencies as customers doesn't mean you are a tentacle of the NSA.

You could argue that any company that actively works with the NSA to increase their coverage is a tentacle.

dsacco9y ago

That's such a broad definition of "tentacle" it's meaningless. We all know what "tentacle" means in this context, and it's not satisfied just by being a government contractor or provider.

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