CIA Awards Secret Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Contract

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23 pointsjonbaer4 comments

So Google turned down participating in drones, but is OK with providing the IT behind torture, dictatorships, election tampering..

They seem to operate on the method of doing evil until others make a stink about it.

> The Central Intelligence Agency has awarded its long-awaited Commercial Cloud Enterprise, or C2E, contract to five companies—Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and IBM

So every major cloud service got a contract? I guess that prevents lawsuits between cloud service providers that we got with the pentagon contract. But still, isn't it odd that every single major cloud service provider got a contract?

next paragraph... "Under the C2E contract vehicle, the companies will compete for specific task orders issued by the CIA on behalf of itself and the 16 other agencies that comprise the intelligence community."

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