In November, a team of nine Google engineers was assigned to build the software for this system, but they never did. Soon realizing what it was for, they refused to be involved in any way. After the New Year, as word of the project began to spread across the company, others voiced concerns that Google was helping the Pentagon make drone strikes. In February, the nine engineers told their story in a post sent across the company on its internal social network, Google+. Like-minded employees supported the stance and hailed these engineers as the Gang of Nine.
