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[FYI] CIA Agency Funding Software Development
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- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:46:37 +0100
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Web Security, Privacy Are Goals of CIA Effort
Agency Funding Software Development
By Vernon Loeb
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 16, 2000; Page A21
The Central Intelligence Agency's new venture capital fund, In-Q-Tel,
has entered into a $3 million contract with Science Applications
International Corp. (SAIC) for development of software designed to
protect Web sites against "denial of service" attacks and to make
computer addresses invisible to "sniffer" programs.
In-Q-Tel announced its venture with SAIC last week as hackers
commandeered hundreds, if not thousands, of computers and launched
just such attacks, flooding Yahoo, Amazon, Excite and other major
companies on the Web with traffic that temporarily shut down their
systems.
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