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tptacek
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Palantir Denies Its 'Prism' Software Is The NSA's ...
Tech company chooses name from Lord of the Rings. More news at 11.
mapt
on June 7, 2013
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Tech company chooses name that allows a literal
eye of evil
to spy on any land and corrupt good men from the comfort of its infernal lair.
liedra
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Except they weren't originally developed to be used by literal eyes of evil. They were the skype of the time, pretty much.
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