#Software

5 entries tagged Software.

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INSLAW INSLAW, Inc. is a Washington-area software company that developed the PROMIS case management system and became the center of a major legal and political scandal after alleging the U.S. Department of Justice stole its proprietary software and drove the company into bankruptcy.
Simeon Simeon, Inc. was a small software and technology company acquired by Hadron, Inc. in 1982, after which it operated as a Hadron subsidiary; it appears in this vault as part of the PROMIS scandal cluster through allegations by INSLAW founder Bill Hamilton that a 1983 fundraising trip by Hadron principals Paul Wormeli and Dominic Laiti was intended to raise capital to acquire PROMIS software - allegations that both Wormeli and Hamilton's own witness Marilyn Titus denied.

PROMIS PROMIS (Prosecutor's Management Information System) was a case management software developed by INSLAW beginning in 1971 that became the center of a major legal and intelligence scandal after the U.S. Justice Department allegedly stole the proprietary version and distributed it internationally with a hidden surveillance backdoor.

PROMIS Software Scandal The INSLAW Affair was a protracted legal and political scandal arising from allegations that the U.S. Department of Justice stole the PROMIS case management software from its developer, drove the company into bankruptcy, and distributed the software internationally, with intelligence agencies reportedly embedding a surveillance backdoor.

Relational Database A relational database is a data storage system organizing information into structured tables with defined relationships, the architecture underlying PROMIS and the INSLAW case management software at the center of the PROMIS Software Scandal.