A small Massachusetts-based company called Intelligent Integration Systems (IISi) has complained that the CIA stole its software and used it for targeting insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The CIA wanted to use IISi’s Geospatial software, which track movement of cell phones and pinpoint user’s location in real time, together with data warehouse appliances from Netezza.
However, IISi could not port their software fast enough to run on Netezza’s newest appliances which the CIA is using. So the agency agreed to let Netezza “illegally and hastily reverse-engineered” IISi’s code to run on their hardware.