GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development

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Post by kiyanwang » Mon, May 16, 2016, 7:25 AM UTC

GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development
github.com

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Post by nbevans » Mon, May 16, 2016, 8:01 AM UTC

This is very well written.

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#3

Post by cyberpunk » Mon, May 16, 2016, 8:19 AM UTC

Hah a PDF!

Nice try, folks...

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Post by cm3 » Mon, May 16, 2016, 8:40 AM UTC

nbevans wrote: post #2

This is very well written.

It might be dangerous to click on it, is there a tl;dr or text extract of it?

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Post by cm3 » Mon, May 16, 2016, 8:41 AM UTC

Wait, the GCHQ has a GitHub profile where they share a Graph Database engine. Interesting.

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Post by dan1234 » Mon, May 16, 2016, 8:46 AM UTC

cm3 wrote: post #4

nbevans wrote: post #2

This is very well written.

It might be dangerous to click on it, is there a tl;dr or text extract of it?

You could probably use an online pdf-to-text converter[1] or view the PDF from within a virtual machine.

[1]http://pdftotext.com (no affiliation, first search result)

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Post by cantagi » Mon, May 16, 2016, 8:47 AM UTC

cm3 wrote: post #4

nbevans wrote: post #2

This is very well written.

It might be dangerous to click on it, is there a tl;dr or text extract of it?

It's OK - Github converts it to HTML. However, GCHQ could politely ask the NSA to force Github to give them the usernames and IP addresses that viewed the repo. Maybe use Tor?

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Post by dotemacs » Mon, May 16, 2016, 8:50 AM UTC

I like how all the members of that GitHub organisation have secret usernames:

https://github.com/orgs/GovernmentCommunicationsHeadquarters...

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Post by bshimmin » Mon, May 16, 2016, 8:55 AM UTC

cm3 wrote: post #5

Wait, the GCHQ has a GitHub profile where they share a Graph Database engine. Interesting.

"Gaffer's Accumulo Store is optimised for: Ingesting large amounts of data efficiently."

For some reason that made me feel slightly nervous.

Re: GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development

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Post by matthewmacleod » Mon, May 16, 2016, 8:56 AM UTC

cyberpunk wrote: post #3

Hah a PDF! Nice try, folks...

You know that PDFs aren't unsafe, right?