The NSA now has a github account

[Da Space Core]

[url]https://••••••••••••••••••/2017/06/nsa-shares-32-open-source-projects-github.html[/url]

[QUOTE]National Security Agency (NSA), a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, which is known for its secretive operations and likes to be keep its work private, has now gone public with a handful of their projects through its own official GitHub page.[/QUOTE]

if you want to take a look at some of their projects

[url]https://github.com/nationalsecurityagency[/url]

[editline]23rd June 2017[/editline]

I have no idea what is wrong with the source link, i cant paste it, but the link to the NSA page itself works

[editline]THE NSA WAS NEVER HERE[/editline]

heres another source

[url]https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3012269/the-nsa-is-sharing-32-projects-on-github[/url]

[QUOTE]The coders and mathematicians employed by the NSA, among other things, develop hacking tools like EternalBlue, ostensibly to protect the country against cyber threats. Much of its work has to be done in secret, but it has been adopting a (very slightly) more open attitude since the Edward Snowden leaks in 2013, opening a Twitter account that same year.

GitHub is an online service used to share code amongst programmers. So, what is the NSA sharing? So far, it lists 32 different projects, although several, like SELinux, are years old.[/QUOTE]

[Perrine]

the hell is up with that source

is the domain censored?

[Da Space Core]

[QUOTE=Perrine;52395453]the hell is up with that source

is the domain censored?[/QUOTE]

it figures that things automatically become censored online when I post about the NSA

[I Am A Rock]

[URL="https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/qgis-shapetools-plugin"]https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/qgis-shapetools-plugin[/URL]

Apparently our tax money has been going towards developing a standalone tool for creating Microsoft Powerpoint™ 2007 clipart shapes.

[RocketSnail]

Looks like the NSA has had a github for a while...

[dustyjo]

This account has commits from over a year ago...

[Kuiper]

Gotta admit their documentation is nice, gotta love the government for them making their internal documents be understandable to anyone.

I also love how they have a tool called lemongrenade.

[Thelurker1234]

The NSA is a part of quite a lot of public stuff, most encryption methods people use are from them. AES, RSA, DSA, etc..

[Flaming Spaz]

[QUOTE=dustyjo;52395746]This account has commits from over a year ago...[/QUOTE]

GitHub uses git commit timestamps for that, so they can be any date. For instance, the Gecko mirror has commits [url=https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commits/master?after=8a05f74a19b668714234fcc04ec11de092a6cefd+543200]going back to 1998[/url], before GitHub was even a thing.

[Shirt.]

SIMP looks amazing

[benjojo]

[QUOTE=I Am A Rock;52395526][URL="https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/qgis-shapetools-plugin"]https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/qgis-shapetools-plugin[/URL]

Apparently our tax money has been going towards developing a standalone tool for creating Microsoft Powerpoint™ 2007 clipart shapes.[/QUOTE]

I mean, This is the agency that gave us this:

[IMG]http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/1/2/i/6/7/a/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.12i5lx.png/1420555257231.jpg[/IMG]

[Kljunas]

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52396143]The NSA is a part of quite a lot of public stuff, most encryption methods people use are from them. AES, RSA, DSA, etc..[/QUOTE]

I mean it's not like they invented AES or RSA, just some specific standards.

[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG"]They also like to put backdoors into things, unsurprisingly.[/URL]

[ARitz Cracker]

[QUOTE=dustyjo;52395746]This account has commits from over a year ago...[/QUOTE]

You can have a project years old before pushing it onto github, it will still show the time of the original commits.