Re:PRISM = Palantir's product?
by zht on Friday June 07, 2013 @11:27AM
(#5839438)
this is really really really bad reporting on the level of Glenn Beck's chalkboard ramblings. And it's all okay, because we're "just asking questions"
"Can we say for sure that Palantir's product, Prism, is the big data engine behind the NSA's secret tool PRISM?
No, we cannot. A call into Palantir has not been returned. As secretive as Palantir is, we doubt anyone we could reach would confirm much for us, anyway.
But it would certainly be a coincidence if there were a big data NSA program was named PRISM and a Palantir product was named Prism and they were not the same."
Re:PRISM = Palantir's product?
by jack_trades on Friday June 07, 2013 @11:37AM
(#5839499)
CIA != NSA and I'd be pessimistic on the CIA funding projects for the NSA. They aren't the same org and they have reasons to not be, so they aren't all chummy.
This reminded me of how ham-handed we should expect the media handling of all this will be and how many windmills will be put up for people to teeter at while the real story and grander plan continues to roll past and evolve.
"Can we say for sure that Palantir's product, Prism, is the big data engine behind the NSA's secret tool PRISM? No, we cannot. A call into Palantir has not been returned. As secretive as Palantir is, we doubt anyone we could reach would confirm much for us, anyway. But it would certainly be a coincidence if there were a big data NSA program was named PRISM and a Palantir product was named Prism and they were not the same."
This reminded me of how ham-handed we should expect the media handling of all this will be and how many windmills will be put up for people to teeter at while the real story and grander plan continues to roll past and evolve.