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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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