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These DARPA Darlings Just Raised $20M To Build A Super-Powered Google For The Internet Of Things

Forbes: As an analyst for the CIA, Tim Junio spent three years keeping tabs on the United States’ adversaries, watching their digital attacks on the networks and electrical grids that kept the country going. In 2014, he was consulting for DARPA, the Department of Defense’s research arm, when he helped uncover potential weaknesses in government’s digital framework, those that would be cataclysmic for the U.S economy if attacked by an enemy of the state. He remembers reporting back to his DARPA overseers that with just two lines of code, they could cause large-scale web blackouts. “Basically enough to have a noticeable degradation on internet performance, particularly in the U.S. and Europe,” Junio, 32, told FORBES.

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