Anonymous Web browser company SafeWeb of Oakland, Calif., got more than just a box of candy hearts from the Central Intelligence Agency in time for Valentine's Day - it got a $30 million investment from the CIA's non-profit venture capital arm, . . .
Anonymous Web browser company SafeWeb of Oakland, Calif., got more than just a box of candy hearts from the Central Intelligence Agency in time for Valentine's Day - it got a $30 million investment from the CIA's non-profit venture capital arm, as well as a commitment to use a customized version of SafeWeb's Triangle Boy software to surf the Web in anonymity.

Triangle Boy is a new SafeWeb product that allows CIA field agents and other employees in foreign countries to transmit information back to field offices or the McLean, Va., headquarters without "arousing suspicion" that they are using SafeWeb's own IP-disguising PrivacyMatrix product to cover their tracks, said SafeWeb President Stephen Hsu.

The CIA has contracted the use of Triangle Boy, which offers e-mail spoofing and other track-covering ways of making an anonymous Web browser and e-mail look like he or she is simply exchanging e-mail with a private user's computer - rather than the SafeWeb server which is actually handles the traffic and masks the true nature of the correspondence - for about $1 million for initial use.

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