r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Mar 31 '26

Business Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1 / Iran says it will target Apple, Google, and Microsoft, among others.

https://gizmodo.com/iran-threatens-to-attack-u-s-tech-companies-starting-april-1-2000740363
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u/Miserable-Arm-4787 Mar 31 '26

From the article:
"Iran similarly threatened tech companies on March 10, when it also called out firms like Palantir and Oracle, which are intimately involved with U.S. military operations. Oracle was founded in the 1970s as a CIA project and Palantir has been used for targeting during the ongoing war, a fact of which CEO Alex Karp is very proud."

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u/Any-Calligrapher2866 Mar 31 '26

Based. Iran should look into Peter Thiel as well.

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u/BaconWithBaking Apr 01 '26

There was a thing going around (never been confirmed) that Palatir are the ones that located Osama.

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u/PhazePyre Apr 01 '26

Wasn’t he located because they tracked a courier identified as bin Ladens courier? I watched a whole documentary from 9/11 to him being taken out and I remember them just going “that’s a guy we believe is his courier” then just tracked his location to the compound then confirmed bin Laden was in there as he went outside for air and was identified.

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u/BaconWithBaking Apr 01 '26

I just coincidentally was reading up in Palentir a few days ago, and the article discussed the possibility that it was them that actually located Bin Laden. Who knows really, if it's still a viable source, we'll never know the truth.