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NSA Opens GitHub Account, Lists 32 Projects Developed By the Agency (thehackernews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hacker News: The National Security Agency (NSA) -- the United States intelligence agency which is known for its secrecy and working in the dark -- has finally joined GitHub and launched an official GitHub page. GitHub is an online service designed for sharing code amongst programmers and open source community, and so far, the NSA is sharing 32 different projects as part of the NSA Technology Transfer Program (TTP), while some of these are "coming soon." "The NSA Technology Transfer Program (TTP) works with agency innovators who wish to use this collaborative model for transferring their technology to the commercial marketplace," the agency wrote on the program's page. "OSS invites the cooperative development of technology, encouraging broad use and adoption. The public benefits by adopting, enhancing, adapting, or commercializing the software. The government benefits from the open source community's enhancements to the technology." Many of the projects the agency listed are years old that have been available on the Internet for some time. For example, SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) has been part of the Linux kernel for years.
FYI, they've had things on Github for a while. Just maybe not under the NSA name.
... just sayin'.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
"The NSA Technology Transfer Program (TTP) works with agency innovators who wish to use this collaborative model for transferring their technology to the commercial marketplace..." while they are actively engaged in technology transfers from both our allies, enemies, and neutral parties to the US...
Surprising number of German innovations become available to American businessmen, even before German researchers fully publish their results. God Bless America.
Now what will Shadow Brokers do for a living??? Think of the hackers!
Who is going to verify that a module you pull from github and use in your code does not have NSA backdoors? Now NSA no longer needs to send its employees to work at Microsoft to write backdoors - all they have to do is convince lazy programmers to reuse NSA modules with backdoors built in and I mean lazy in the best sense of the world - after all, all progress is the result of laziness. If everyone was hardworking we would all live in caves, walk everywhere and rub sticks to start fire.
**Life is too short to be serious**
Man, they are about to be inundated with MRs to include their recently leaked exploit code on Github.
no thanks, billy. i'm not about to willingly compromise my privacy with your backdoored software.
The British information security services, GCHQ, have been posting interesting and useful stuff to GitHub for a while. In fact if you want to do interesting analytics on graphs with annotations to both arcs and nodes they have released some pretty neat tools, and they're not just useful for finding terrorists on social networks.
If intelligent life is too complex to evolve on its own, who designed God?
in 2001 i was given access to 65 million honeypot ip addresses the FBI were using .....its nearing 3 times that now...
ergo i have a lot less to fear then all of you in my net travels in anything i do
Is there a project for NSA Technology Transfer Program (NTTP), the system and a protocol for securely transferring technology over the Internet?
Not a honeypot ... they're realized the benefit of crowdsourcing :)
WannaCry helped prove to the NSA that if they provide the exploits, the community will provide a better user interface, payload, and bring experience to the table, for lower costs and of higher quality than NSA contractors, all for the low low price of sharing their own source code :)
I do hope they remembered to license all their exploit code AGPLv3 so all network accessable copies of it must legally have the source released :)
Why would I ever contribute to a spy agency who spy's on it's own people?
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A reminder that the downsizing of jobs led to the World Wars, and that automation will lead to much worse than world war; our annihilation.
Karl Wittgenstein was a very cunning man, but a proxy for the globalist cabal. They killed all of his sons except the famous Ludwig and bled away the fortune. Another reminder that no matter how well you do for them, they will never accept you and will always betray you to the end of your line.
Perhaps this is too much for some of you to accept, but can you really deny that automation prioritized profit ahead of people? That it in fact automation totally disregards the people? Is this the point when you parrot your masters' notions that some must fall for progress to continue? Exactly what portion of this progress benefits you?
There are no forces of nature standing plain in sight for us to conquer. We cannot overcome our limitations with material. No amount of capital will take us beyond the Earth. The people are the only thing we have; only by investing in them will the solutions to our progress be found. We must stop the class of madmen that bred themselves to accumulate capital for its own end. Left alone they would kill us all to stop us from competing for their capital.
Conducting espionage and sabotage against sovereign, peaceful countries, is now a fun and cool things you can share with others on GitHub. America is getting sicker by the day.
I propose people do what the NSA does: try to sneak malware and send pull requests that compromise their software.
NSA had a GitHub account for years. It just didn't use the "NSA" term in its name. Leave it to the idiots at TheHackerNews to not notice it. If you don't believe me, then check out Apache NiFi, a project the NSA open-sourced and donated to the Apache Foundation years ago. It was first released on GitHub, then donated to Apache.
This article has been copy-pasted and re-worded from TheNextWeb.
Please stop featuring these indian cunts from TheHackersNews. All they do is steal content. Usually from Motherboard, TNW, TheRegister, BleepingComputer, or ThreatPost.
They steal content, space out their text so the page is longer. All for the purpose of showing more ads on their site.
And I thought Wikileaks was the preferred source of NSA source code !!
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See blog entry: https://puppet.com/blog/nsa-re...
https://github.com/NationalSec...
https://github.com/SIMP
A great and extremely useful project by the way.
1) If you're a 'tech journalist', make some minimal effort to get facts right (like you know actually looking at dates on the GitHub org page), at least in your fucking headline.
2) I hate this reductive 'anything with the word NSA in it is bad' reasoning. Open source is open source, and useful code is useful. GitHub is full of cool stuff from organizations that don't get much love here - Walmart, Facebook etc.
No, fuck you, NSA. You're not our friend, you're not cool, you're not hip, you're not edgy hacker bad asses, you're just plain assholes. Fuck you. Apology not accepted.
So what happens when the patent trolls go looking through the code and decide they own something they find in there? Do they go after the NSA or keep their mouths shut?