Palantir acquires Kimono

Re:Palantir acquires Kimono by randycupertino on Monday February 15, 2016 @05:12PM (#11106443)

They have one of the worst work/balances in the valley, fratty/kool aid culture, claim to be "making a difference" but really what they actually work on would be a major downside for most normal people. For example, they make targeting software and are very likely responsible for assassinations by the US and when we disappear people. They're also working on big brother tech if that's your thing.

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Re:Palantir acquires Kimono by jonnybgood on Monday February 15, 2016 @05:18PM (#11106472)

What is targeting software? How are they responsible for assassinations and disappearing people? What is this big brother tech?

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Re:Palantir acquires Kimono by randycupertino on Monday February 15, 2016 @05:51PM (#11106658)

First of all:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#Contro...

Also:

> When intruders from the hacker group Anonymous gained access to thousands of emails stored on the servers of the security firm HB Gary Federal, the emails revealed that Palantir had worked with HB Gary Federal to develop proposals for attacking WikiLeaks’ infrastructure, blackmailing its supporters and identifying donors.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/02/09/did-sec...

There was also the sex scandal with their founder and a Stanford student: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/the-stanford-unde...

This thread on HN also has some discussion about their government and military contracts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11036156

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Re:Palantir acquires Kimono by argonaut on Monday February 15, 2016 @06:36PM (#11106901)

The sex accusations ended up being baseless, and Stanford reversed their ban on Lonsdale entering the campus (and Stanford has a lower evidentiary standard than the courts)

Also, your quote doesn't appear in that article at all any more.

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Re:Palantir acquires Kimono by randycupertino on Monday February 15, 2016 @07:00PM (#11106985)

Sorry here's another link:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/07/startup...

Second to last paragraph.

As for the sex accusations, who knows what really happened. Though the article doesn't exactly paint him- edit- either of them- in a flattering light. It does show poor judgement for the dude to get involved with a student he is mentoring. Then again, he also stumped on the campaign trail for Rand Paul of all people and also pals around with Mitt Romney.

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Re:Palantir acquires Kimono by argonaut on Monday February 15, 2016 @07:02PM (#11106992)

Look, my point is, it's not valid to bring up the sex accusations, because they were proved to be false.

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Re:Palantir acquires Kimono by nefitty on Monday February 15, 2016 @05:33PM (#11106555)

Their YouTube channel has 100's of videos that show what they do. The one that blew my mind: GovCon7: Introduction to Palantir: https://youtu.be/f86VKjFSMJE

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Re:Palantir acquires Kimono by kafkaesq on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @03:00PM (#11112709)

"Targetting software" (as in, software that actually points a weapon at a target) most likely isn't something that Palantir is involved in.

However, data mining for target leads (e.g. through cell phone, financial, social network + other data) would be much more up their alley.

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