Palantir Has Raised $880M at a $20B Valuation

Re:Palantir Has Raised $880M at a $20B Valuation by FreakLegion on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @06:35PM (#10786292)

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7294743 and Thomas' reply. That's the extent to which Palantir was "involved" with HBGary Federal. (And while it should go without saying, I'll say it anyway: There was no attempt to infiltrate and destroy Wikileaks. Just a lot of hairbrained talk.)

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Re:Palantir Has Raised $880M at a $20B Valuation by colordrops on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @09:39PM (#10786779)

Why should it "go without saying"? Have the facts been laid out and proven in an exceptionally clear and public way? I don't think so.

And "hairbrained" is an strange adjective to use for a company that is almost 100% engineers from top schools, pulling in a billion in funding, and working for the CIA.

All I know is the contents of the leaked presentation that laid out the plans against Wikileaks. I will ignore any PR and damage control about "hairbrained talk".

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Re:Palantir Has Raised $880M at a $20B Valuation by vox_mollis on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @09:49PM (#10786811)

Right. All due respect to Thomas, but downplaying/minimizing literally every single shady thing the government does is par for the course for him. As his recent concession on Dual_EC_DRBG demonstrates, sometimes the government really does engage in damaging, moustache-twirling villainy.

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Re:Palantir Has Raised $880M at a $20B Valuation by joering2 on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @09:00PM (#10786692)

I hate to be this guy, but "just a lot of hairbrained talk" is what puts people behind bars in America and all around the world, all around the clock.

You don't need to carry out a crime to be convicted of a conspiracy to commit it, and as a result put in jail for a long time.

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