This fictional company is part of the Destiny City role playing game setting.
WitchTel was founded in the early 70s by Alexis and Hamilton Creed. The couple studied mathematics at the University of Berkeley in the 60s, but dropped out amidst the booming counter culture of the times. They were infatuated with New Age philosophy and alternative religions. Then they discovered Ayn Rand. Suddenly their lives had a purpose: making money.
The couple moved to Destiny City around 1970 and spent their time selling acid and learning to program computers. They eventually built a database system and statistical modeling software platform that formed the basis for the first WitchTel products. Soon they had no reason to sell drugs: WitchTel was the largest technology company in the world. Rumor has it one of the company’s first contracts was with the CIA.
Following the rise of the Internet in the early 90s, WitchTel built one of the first, and still the most popular, web search engines in the world. Many of the city’s programmers, computer security researchers and other information technology professionals work for WitchTel.
Briefing
- Type: Private
- Industry: Technology
- Founded: Destiny City, 1968
- Headquarters: Destiny City
- Area served: Worldwide
- Key people: Alexis and Hamilton Creed
- Products: WitchTel Database, WitchTel Search
- Number of employees: 137,000
Products and Services
- WitchTel Grimoire, the company’s original enterprise database server product.
- WitchTel Internet Scry, a consumer-facing search business
- WitchTel Omniscience Server, an enterprise search, knowledge management, and eDiscovery platform
- WitchTel Hex Shield, a mobile device management and security platform
Criticism and controversies
WitchTel’s ties to intelligence agencies remain a constant source of controversy for the company. Many believe the company’s ties to the CIA date back to its very founding, and rumors persist that the company provides search data to intelligence agencies and possibly even backdoors to mobile devices via its Mobile Membrane service.
See also
data.cult, an analytics company founded by former WitchTel employee Raymond Fabrice in the early 2000s.