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National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Open Source Software

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Re: National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Open Source Software

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Post by maximente »

if we assume that committers to these projects are government employees or contractors (possibly with access to juicy systems or info), it'd be interesting to use this commit data as well as a 1 hop followers/following graph of authors to build a dataset that may shed light into communities of gov't contractors that could then be spear phished/targeted in other manners by say other intel agencies. i wonder if this is being done currently.

Re: National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Open Source Software

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Post by atemerev »

maximente wrote: post #3

if we assume that committers to these projects are government employees or contractors (possibly with access to juicy systems or info), it'd be interesting to use this commit data as well as a 1 hop followers/following graph of authors to build a dataset that may shed light into communities of gov't contractors that could then be spear phished/targeted in other manners by say other intel agencies. i wonder if this is…

Contractors are not secret, nor are employees. You can go to LinkedIn and easily look up people who work for NSA, or Booz Allen Hamilton, and learn a great deal of who does what (again, not a secret). Counterintelligence measures are employed elsewhere.

Re: National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Open Source Software

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Post by afpx »

maximente wrote: post #3

if we assume that committers to these projects are government employees or contractors (possibly with access to juicy systems or info), it'd be interesting to use this commit data as well as a 1 hop followers/following graph of authors to build a dataset that may shed light into communities of gov't contractors that could then be spear phished/targeted in other manners by say other intel agencies. i wonder if this is…

Or, you could just use LinkedIn

Re: National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Open Source Software

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

maximente wrote: post #3

if we assume that committers to these projects are government employees or contractors (possibly with access to juicy systems or info), it'd be interesting to use this commit data as well as a 1 hop followers/following graph of authors to build a dataset that may shed light into communities of gov't contractors that could then be spear phished/targeted in other manners by say other intel agencies. i wonder if this is…

They've already been exposed by the OPM breach.

Re: National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Open Source Software

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Post by [deleted] »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #6
maximente wrote: post #3

if we assume that committers to these projects are government employees or contractors (possibly with access to juicy systems or info), it'd be interesting to use this commit data as well as a 1 hop followers/following graph of authors to build a dataset that may shed light into communities of gov't contractors that could then be spear phished/targeted in other manners by say other intel agencies. i wonder if this is…

They've already been exposed by the OPM breach.

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