CIA dumps some cash into Apache's Lucene and Solr search projects

Posted by sinbsd on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @12:29PM
from the thatcriticguy.com dept.

http://thatcriticguy.com/cia-dumps-cash-apaches-lucene

Some interesting news that’s been making circulation throughout the blogosphere lately is the recent investment by In-Q-Tel (the technology arm of the CIA) into Lucid Imagination (an open source firm that provides support for Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies).

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Re:CIA dumps some cash into Apache's Lucene and Solr search ... by icey on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @03:50PM (#671037)

I am not sure if the powers that be are paying close attention to this sort of behavior or not, so I'm just going to mention it.

I've noticed an increasing trend of sockpuppet accounts. sinbsd and cmscritic appear to make submissions only from the same places, and comment on threads created by one or the other.

The information in this article is interesting enough that it doesn't deserve to be flagged, so I'm not really sure the best way to try to bring it up (clearly I've chosen to just comment about it for now).

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Re:CIA dumps some cash into Apache's Lucene and Solr search ... by kungfudoi on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @02:46PM (#670922)

Congratulations to these projects. Definitely a win for the open source community.

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Re:CIA dumps some cash into Apache's Lucene and Solr search ... by ComputerGuru on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @03:44PM (#671025)

...and a loss for privacy evangelists worldwide.

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Re:CIA dumps some cash into Apache's Lucene and Solr search ... by cmscritic on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @02:56PM (#670946)

Absolutely agree

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Re:CIA dumps some cash into Apache's Lucene and Solr search ... by mblakele on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @02:54PM (#670940)

Primary source: http://www.iqt.org/news-and-press/press-releases/2009/Lucid_...

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Re:CIA dumps some cash into Apache's Lucene and Solr search ... by cmscritic on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @01:39PM (#670792)

Good to see some promotion from the government for a change.

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Re:CIA dumps some cash into Apache's Lucene and Solr search ... by rjurney on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @01:48PM (#670819)

If you look, In-Q-Tel has made over 150 investments. There is no better customer for 'Big Data' than 'Big Brother' :)

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Re:CIA dumps some cash into Apache's Lucene and Solr search ... by cmscritic on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @02:56PM (#670945)

Agreed.

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