How the CIA made Google

In-Q-Tel is one of a hundred government funding arms that has invested in basically everything. The goal being to stay ahead of technological developments obviously.

Should they not be doing that? Seems like you'd want the government to have the best stuff. People complain about how backward and broken the USG is with technology (very true by the way) but don't want them to invest in it.

Or is it just so much mistrust that everyone figures it's only investing in stuff that makes the world worse? Too much hyperbole around this issue - like everything else.

And the nsa contributes heavily to Linux kernel and most of our crypto

Most of our technology is one way or another funded by the military doesn't mean there is some giant conspiracy

The key issue would be related to how they now relate to government surveillance, which does not seem to be addressed in the article.

Would be nice if someone did the same level of investigation on that.