Security News 14 cutting edge firms funded by the CIA

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The Central Intelligence Agency has its own investment capital arm, and it's been pumping money into some of Silicon Valley's most innovative companies for years.

In-Q-Tel (named after "Q" in the James Bond films) invests in companies that can deliver useful technology to the intelligence community within 36 months. But since it's structured as an independent, non-profit organization, it's rather unique: It's a VC firm that doesn't really need to make money back for outside investors, and it can tap into the deep pockets of the intelligence "black budget."

Its involvement in a startup is also a stamp-of-approval of sorts, often bringing in more money from other VC firms, to the tune of $11-$15 for every dollar the CIA kicks in. In-Q-Tel typically does not disclose the amount it invests, though a Washington Post story from 2005 says the funding is often relatively small $500,000 to $2 million investments.

Here are some of the cutting edge companies the CIA has found useful.
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LOOOOOOOOOOOL at Cylance !!!! :p
 
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Umbra said:
LOOOOOOOOOOOL at Cylance !!!! :p
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What's Cylance doing with all that CIA funding - having company picnics ? Think about the amount of money Cylance receives versus their protection softs...

US Government's best return on cyber related funding is Carnegie Mellon University.

CMU is developing SkyNet... and a million ways to break into user systems without detection.

CMU's multiple DoD (Pentagon), NSA, CIA, FBI, Secret Service, Army, Navy, Air Force, Homeland Security cyber "research" centers are underground fortresses - all locked-up tighter than a nuclear missile silo. US government security forces are present (federal agents) along with a US Marine Military Police unit.
 
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I was wondering why you don't have any control on Cylance settings, now i know because CIA do it for you :p
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CIA, NSA, FBI want to put nanobots in everybody's underwear...

"Collect it all, to know it all..." -- ex NSA Director

"...the NSA mantra on communications data which says, "Sniff it all, collect it all, know it all, process it all and exploit it all."

That's NSA policy. CIA is much, much worse... although CIA relies very heavily upon NSA.
 
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CIA, NSA, FBI want to put nanobots in everybody's underwear...

"Collect it all, to know it all..." -- ex NSA Director

"...the NSA mantra on communications data which says, "Sniff it all, collect it all, know it all, process it all and exploit it all."

That's NSA policy. CIA is much, much worse... although CIA relies very heavily upon NSA.
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There's a simple way to beat those nano-bots just eat a lot of junk food and then after a few hours o_O :confused:
 
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I think CIA did an amazing job, when you invest in a security company you can get what info you want since most security companies act like backdoors (Record any website you visit, using cloud lookup you can find any fine on that PC and so on, when you install your security product you will have your own install ID and many more).
 
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