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Re:Palantir and Prism: A Possible Link by steveklabnik on Friday June 07, 2013 @09:45PM (#5843297)
> the work I've done personally hasn't contributed to nuclear war or anything of that sort.

You might find this interesting: https://gist.github.com/zmaril/5326884

TL;DR: if you've contributed to open source in some way, you've probably given Palantir the tools they need to do their work.

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Re:Palantir and Prism: A Possible Link by binarycrusader on Friday June 07, 2013 @10:48PM (#5843485)
I don't agree with the post you're replying to, but your argument seems pretty specious to me.

Software developers are generally no more responsible for the misdeeds of others using their software than anyone else that produces almost any kind of tool.

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