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Remember when the CIA contracted with Netezza to improve their predator drone targeting, who then went and reverse-engineered some software from their ex business partner IISI and shipped that?

IISi’s lawyers claimed on September 7, 2010 that “Netezza secretly reverse engineered IISi’s Geospatial product by, inter alia, modifying the internal installation programs of the product and using dummy programs to access its binary code [ … ] to create what Netezza’s own personnel reffered to internally as a “hack” version of Geospatial that would run, albeit very imperfectly, on Netezza’s new TwinFin machine [ … ] Netezza then delivered this “hack” version of Geospatial to a U.S. Government customer (the Central Intelligence Agency) [ … ] According to Netezza’s records, the CIA accepted this “hack” of Geospatial on October 23, 2009, and put it into operation at that time.”

Reality is always more absurd, government agencies remain inept and corrupt even when shrouded in secrecy to cover up their missteps, and by the way, Kubernetes now flies on the F16.