CIA dumps some cash into Apache's Lucene and Solr search projects

I am not sure if the powers that be are paying close attention to this sort of behavior or not, so I'm just going to mention it.

I've noticed an increasing trend of sockpuppet accounts. sinbsd and cmscritic appear to make submissions only from the same places, and comment on threads created by one or the other.

The information in this article is interesting enough that it doesn't deserve to be flagged, so I'm not really sure the best way to try to bring it up (clearly I've chosen to just comment about it for now).

Congratulations to these projects. Definitely a win for the open source community.

Absolutely agree

...and a loss for privacy evangelists worldwide.

Primary source: http://www.iqt.org/news-and-press/press-releases/2009/Lucid_...

Good to see some promotion from the government for a change.

If you look, In-Q-Tel has made over 150 investments. There is no better customer for 'Big Data' than 'Big Brother' :)

Agreed.