FBI's Private Search Technology Can Be Yours For The Low Price Off...

By Marc Ambinder
The company that sold to the FBI a bundle of technology that allows the agency to sift and sort through reams of data is now selling a version of that software to the public. The company, Chiliad, boasts that the FBI's counterterrorism database is searched 50,000 times a day, contains billions of static pages and is dynamically linked to 200 other search engines. 

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