[kictanet] When Google Met Wikileaks

[S.M. Muraya]

The article links to an equally interesting read...
http://archive.today/LTL6l#selection-1311.1-1314.0

Regards

Murigi / Stanley Muraya

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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 5:10 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:

> Very interesting read.
>
> One thing that stands out for me is that most technologies that now are
> mainstream have had government support at some point.
>
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> On Oct 27, 2014, at 12:00 AM, S.M. Muraya via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
> Long read...
>
> Long before company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin hired Schmidt in
> 2001, their initial research upon which Google was based had been partly
> funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). And even
> as Schmidt’s Google developed an image as the overly friendly giant of
> global tech, it was building a close relationship with the intelligence
> community.
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> http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447
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