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This relationship between the government, national security establishment and community, and the tech industry has already existed for decades from the founding of Silicon Valley with Fairchild Semiconductor to many others afterwards ranging from Oracle (a CIA funded project), RSA to Palantir.

There is even a public VC:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

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https://fcw.com/blogs/lectern/2014/09/cia-oracle-government-...

https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2018/09/how-government-h...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/12/nsa_spying_wh...

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Karkar Electronics and NATO telecommunications:

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=edw...

parent 1cvmask 5 years ago

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