the palantir financial product named prism is useless for intelligence analysis. it's for timeseries financial data. my understanding is it's a completely different product, code base and market from the connect-the-dots product they sell as a competitor to i2's Analyst's Notebook product.
"these are not the droids you're looking for" On Jun 7, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Warren Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > Wink wink > http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/07/startup-palantir-denies-its-prism-software-is-the-nsas-prism-surveillance-system/ > > > > Sent from my Mobile Device. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: "Jason L. Sparks" <[email protected]> > Date: 06/07/2013 1:31 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: Warren Bailey <[email protected]> > Cc: Jay Ashworth <[email protected]>,NANOG <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project > > > I assume the unclassified word "Prism" (which is found everywhere on IC > resumes and open job descriptions) refers to Palantir's Prism suite. Could > be wrong, but seems logical. > > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Warren Bailey > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > Has anyone found out if this system is actually based on Narus? I associated > this program as a super version of the AT&T thing, and if I recall it was > understood that was Narus and Co via NSA/FBI? > > > Sent from my Mobile Device. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Jay Ashworth <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: 06/07/2013 12:16 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: NANOG <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Valdis Kletnieks" >> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > >> On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:57:07 -0700, Mark Seiden said: >>> and also, only $20m/year? in my experience, the govt cannot do >>> anything like this addressing even a single provider for that little money. >> >> Convince me the *real* number doesn't have another zero. >> >> Remember - the $20M number came from a source that has *very* good >> reason to lie as much as it can right now about the true extent of this. > > Indeed. Luckily, the press is all over this like a bad smell. > > I mentioned The Story in a new posting just now; they have, surprisingly, > already managed to dig at this spot, a pretty quick response for them: > > http://www.thestory.org/stories/2013-06/americans-spying-americans > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 > 1274<tel:%2B1%20727%20647%201274> > >
