Yep!
It has long been thus.
Audrey Watters argues persuasively that ITTech is born from military goals. And of course corporate complicity is older than that, and pre-digital e.g. see Edwin Black’s work on IBM’s secretive connivance with Holocaust management.
Let’s not forget that Palantir is the possibly the most evil company on Earth (Alex Karp, that’s you), possibly by far responsible for more genocidal murder than Microsoft.
But they are all at it – keyboard killers even as they preach at us about enlightenment …
(Worthwhile noting here that Hedy Lamarr’s invention of frequency hopping fed into very early work on mobile battlefield communications that in turn fed into the early work on packet switching, the foundation of today’s digital data systems.)
Edwin Black:
Nazi Nexus: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nazi-Nexus-Corporate-Connections-Holocaust
IBM and the Holocaust: https://www.amazon.co.uk/IBM-Holocaust-Strategic-Alliance-Corporation-Expanded-ebook
Audrey Watters:
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/swords-into-plowshares