Netezza Corporation organization
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Claims (8)
Netezza Corporation covered_up
Intelligence Integration Systems, Inc. documented
“into IISI's geospatial source code in violation of its no reverse engineering provision of the agreement and created a version of geospatial that ran on TwinFin, though very imperfectly, which it delivered to the CIA in October 2009, and wh…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 12 @ 17:23
Netezza Corporation carried_out_attack
Intelligence Integration Systems, Inc. documented
“after they had already told Netezza, we're happy to do it, we just need a new contract. According to court documents prepared by IISI, the alleged hacking of the geospatial software by Netezza personnel appears to have begun right around th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 12 @ 36:15
Netezza Corporation sold
CIA documented
“Netezza marketed this and hacked into, reverse engineered a proprietary system and then sold it to the CIA. That's really, really interesting. More specifically, the imperfectly operating software had the following problems. According to an…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 12 @ 17:56
Netezza Corporation sold
CompSec documented
“A purchase order was delivered to Netezza in mid-September 2009, calling for the acquisition of Twin Fin 12 for a little over a million dollars, along with the system software dubbed Netezza Geospatial for Netezza Twin Fin 12. That's their …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 12 @ 32:26
CIA funded
Netezza Corporation guest_asserted
“about McCormick. The CIA does not, as a rule, comment on pending matters in U.S. courts. The author spoke with a CIA source who was familiar with issues raised in the Netezza IISI lawsuit. That source, who asked to remain anonymous, claims …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 12 @ 39:22
Netezza Corporation funded
Sandia National Laboratories documented
“Unquote. The issue of the drone coat being off 1 to 13 meters seems problematic and should be when drones are being used to kill people. And the fact that Netezza was doing the bidding of the CIA for profit is not the stuff of conspiracy th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 12 @ 23:25
Netezza Corporation funded
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory documented
“Unquote. The issue of the drone coat being off 1 to 13 meters seems problematic and should be when drones are being used to kill people. And the fact that Netezza was doing the bidding of the CIA for profit is not the stuff of conspiracy th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 12 @ 23:25
Netezza Corporation front_for
CIA host_asserted
“Netezza also manages to obtain a rare order from the SEC, granting the company permission to cloak some of its filings with the agency. So they're operating basically as an arm of the government and are allowed to make secret SEC filings as…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 12 @ 23:54
Mentions (48)
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of the CIA operations inside the U.S., specifically what appears to be agency contracting practices that make the veracity the victim of subterfuge. The litigation involves a breach of contract dispute between two high-tech companies. One, …
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and another small privately-owned software company called Intelligence Integration Systems, Inc. They were both based in Massachusetts. The litigation hit the court quietly in November 2009. The complaint was filed by Netezza. Netezza? One …
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is capable of rapidly integrating spatial data like maps and visual images with non-visual data like names and telephone numbers. Here's how the software known as IISI Geospatial is described in the court pleadings. Quote, the software allo…
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or to identify the person whose cell phone signal has moved from one tower to another, allowing it to be mapped and analyzed quickly and efficiently. The essential argument in the lawsuit between Netezza and IISI boils down to whether IISI …
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Both parties in the case agree that IISI did sell a version of Geospatial for Netezza that was designed to operate on the company's prior data warehouse platform. That was called Netezza Performance Server. However, IISI argues that per a c…
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It was not required to develop a new version of its software to operate on the latest new product that Netezza was creating called TwinFin. That was unveiled in 2009. From an IISI memo, it said the following. Unbeknownst to IISI at the time…
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geospatial was running and available on Twinfin when it in fact was not and had been representing at trade conferences that it had a geospatial product that ran on its new Twinfin computer which it did not because they had not worked out a …
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former contract was for a particular program that Netezza had. There was no, hey, you can port this over, you can use this indefinitely. It was designed for one product, one system, and they were out advertising that they had already gotten…
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Netezza, by contract, contends that IISI was required to adapt their software to their new hardware. But it runs on a completely different platform and it has different processing chips. It's literally a brand new system. A judge needed to …
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It's important to note that IISI also argues in its court's pleadings that the agreement between Netezza includes clear language prohibiting Netezza from reverse engineering IISI's geospatial software. And that is precisely the point where …
▶ 17:23
into IISI's geospatial source code in violation of its no reverse engineering provision of the agreement and created a version of geospatial that ran on TwinFin, though very imperfectly, which it delivered to the CIA in October 2009, and wh…
▶ 17:56
Netezza marketed this and hacked into, reverse engineered a proprietary system and then sold it to the CIA. That's really, really interesting. More specifically, the imperfectly operating software had the following problems. According to an…
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Included in a PowerPoint presentation, IISI filed in court proceedings, quote, the results on the customers, Netezza's twin fin 12, returned much faster than the previous. But for some strange reason, many of the calculations are off a litt…
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If you're conducting an operation with a drone that has a missile on it, 13 meters is pretty big. If you're collecting data on people, 13 meters is pretty big. The customer referred to in the Netezza internal email is the CIA. They don't na…
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The agency's need for an operational Netezza twin fin utilizing the IISI's geospatial was represented by Netezza's executive as a matter of patriotic duty in trying to intimidate IISI into doing it anyway. According to a sworn deposition of…
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Netezza General Manager John Shepard called me immediately before that. He called me on the phone. I was in my car. The question, was that on or about October 10th, 2009? Zimmerman's reply, I believe it was on October 9th. Question, and wha…
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He had just been informed that the CIA was using, wanted to use Spatial, Netezza's brand name for I-I-S-I, geospatial, to target AIM predator drones in Afghanistan. And that it was our patriotic duty to work with them to try to get Spatial …
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Who was on the call? Zimmerman said Netez's president and CEO, Jim Baum, B-A-U-M, was on the call. Jim Baum led the call. Myself, Paul Davis, the co-founder and CEO of IISI. Marshall Peterson, another IISI co-founder, was on the call. John …
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And ultimately, did IISI communicate to Netezza after the conference call that it would not do what Netezza wanted it to do, produce incremental versions of the software in the way they had been requested, at least without additional terms …
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According to IISI's pleadings, Netezza's officials claim the CIA needed Twinfin with operational IISI software to use in the spy agency's Predator drone program, which involves the use of unmanned aircraft to target and kill people in Pakis…
▶ 23:25
Unquote. The issue of the drone coat being off 1 to 13 meters seems problematic and should be when drones are being used to kill people. And the fact that Netezza was doing the bidding of the CIA for profit is not the stuff of conspiracy th…
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Netezza also manages to obtain a rare order from the SEC, granting the company permission to cloak some of its filings with the agency. So they're operating basically as an arm of the government and are allowed to make secret SEC filings as…
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IISI's pleadings in the litigation allege that once it became clear to Netezza's officials that IISI was not going to cooperate in upgrading the geospatial software for TwinFin absent a new contract, the national security card got played. N…
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From IISI's memorandum of law in support of the judgment that they were seeking, quote, Netezza suddenly began pressuring IISI to develop a version of geospatial to run on the twin fin on an accelerated incremental basis, claiming that nati…
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And when IISI officials refused to cave in to the pressure, IISI's pleadings claim that Netezza proceeded to hack, create a pirated version of their geospatial software, resulting in an imperfect end product that allegedly was sold to the C…
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after they had already told Netezza, we're happy to do it, we just need a new contract. According to court documents prepared by IISI, the alleged hacking of the geospatial software by Netezza personnel appears to have begun right around th…
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according to court filings. An internal Netezza email dated October 13th, 2009. Guys, this relationship with IISI is really taking some ugly turns. I want to set up some time on Thursday to get on the phone with you guys to talk about some …
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Whoever we decide to partner with should be clean. Someone that IISI can't go after for IP infringement. In other words, they're going to steal it. Another internal Netezza email dated a week later, subject spatial workaround on Twinfin. He…
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x86 version of the spatial library on the host. We also added in the line to make the code dependent on the library that we created in step one. I can go in and modify the installer this weekend if you want. The next day, another email. Spo…
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We are satisfied that the TwinFin spatial performance for right now, while we quickly figure out the best path to getting spatial, the Netezza hijacked version of IISI's geospatial, fully ported into TwinFin. And let's see, three weeks late…
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That's literally the purpose of it. It's being used in a very boring capacity, they said, to consolidate information, just one more vector to figure out who we're dealing with. The source, though, also claimed to have no knowledge of the II…
▶ 40:23
software code absent their approval would not constitute piracy if the judge determines that Netezza owned the software and that IISI was obligated under contract to upgrade it to perform on TwinFin. Even if we set aside IISI's vigorous ass…
▶ 40:51
That doesn't explain why the CIA would purchase and put into use a computer system that was flawed. As the email trail put into evidence seems to indicate, that was the case with respect to Netezza's hack. Regardless of the software's use, …
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That wrong is only magnified if the computer code is put to use as Netezza's officials represented to IISI to target and kill people. That issue of the CIA's alleged misconduct simply doesn't seem to be one that can be addressed adequately,…
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Interesting. On August 20th, 2010, IISI scored a victory in a legal battle with Netezza. The judge in Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston ruled a breach of contract claim filed against IISI should be dismissed. In fact, the judge ruling…
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In addition, the judge ruled that IISI is not required to update its proprietary software called Geospatial for use in a new data warehouse computer that Netezza allegedly sold to the CIA for use in the agency's drone program, according to …
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Because Netezza thus has no reasonable expectation of proving its claim that IISI breached an obligation under the agreement by refusing to make its geospatial software operate without error on TwinFin Appliance, summary judgment was entere…
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There are several additional claims made against Netezza by IISI that remain pending in court, including a request for an injunction prohibiting Netezza from continuing to manufacture their software. Huh. Isn't that interesting? The Boston-…
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IISI in the fall of 2010 sought a court order from a judge in Boston, if granted, threatened to require the CIA to return the hack software it had required for the predator drone program. They filed that motion on September 7th, 2010 for a …
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After IISI indicated that it was not bound by contract to deliver the proprietary software to Netezza, Netezza created a re-engineered version of IISI's geospatial that ran on its twin fin, though very imperfectly, according to court record…
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were really off base. The motion for a preliminary injunction filed in early September 2010 with the court asked the judge to order Netezza to cease marketing, distributing or using geospatial or any related toolkit or any hacked or re-engi…
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To protect their interest in the pending deal, IISI and Natera on September 27, 2010, agreed to ensure IISI software is not shared with IBM. The parties agreed that between now and the closing of the acquisition of Natera by IBM, as announc…
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on Monday, September 20th, 2010, Netezza Corporation will not disclose to IBM any copies of IISI software, source code, binary code, object code, installation scripts, or specifications. The pact between Netezza and IISI created a temporary…
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IISI's geospatial software with IBM. The agreement in legal jargon protects the intellectual property of IISI from being immediately absorbed by IBM. A very interesting email from an intelligence agency arrived in the author's inbox in mid-…
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NGA. It was with great interest to NGA that I read your excellent article on Netezza versus IISI's lawsuit. I would like your assistance, please, if you have some time today. I located on your article a link to Judge Hinkle's decision, the …
▶ 50:49
dated August 20th, 2010. However, I would like to obtain other legal pleadings in the case, such as the plaintiff's complaint, the defendant's answer and counterclaims, the actual motion for summary judgment filed by IISI Inc., and Netez's …
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that the allegedly faulty software sold to the CIA for its drone program might have spread beyond the agency, maybe even to NGA, and maybe by extension, even to the drones operating on the U.S. border. An explosive lawsuit alleging that, ok…
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IISI was not going to be asked to adapt their software. And again, just to be clear, they never said they wouldn't. They just wanted to be compensated for it. And so the government's answer to that is basically bring in IBM because it's so …