Spook Valley

摘要

Paranoia is in. While most of high tech suffers, business is booming in a 30-kilometer stretch of rolling hills in Virginia. It's too bad that no one can talk about it. Amit Yoran has plenty to crow about His small company, Riptech, thrives in the hottest tech sector since Sept. 11: information security. He runs an ace team of software engineers and security analysts drawn from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon and the National Security Agency. They shadow hackers trying to penetrate the networks of corporate and government clients. Revenue could quadruple next year to $100 million.