Palantir Apologizes For Its Plan To Crush Wikileaks

Palantir Technologies, the data analytics business which was one of many authors of a remarkable slide deck setting out tactics governments as well as companies can make use of to fight Wikileaks, including cyberattacks and pressuring journalists, has issued a complete apology by CEO Alex Karp. (Forbes)

The slideshow were leaked after Anonymous, the number of hackers who do damage on Wikileaks opponents as well as other targets, broke in to security company HBGary's servers as well as posted tons of knowledge online. HBGary has been another company powering the deck.

Palantir also claims they will back out of all contact with HBGary, and tensions that they help make data analytics computer software, not cyberattack software program, and says they have no plans to do this. Karp also professionally apologizes to Glenn Greenwald, the Salon.com reporter who is the noted supporter regarding Wikileaks and that is specifically named by the document as any target.

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