THE VIDEO SHELF · surveillance and open source
NSA operation ORCHESTRA Annual Status Report - FOSDEM 2014
Poul-Henning Kamp's FOSDEM 2014 talk presents a fictitious NSA program called ORCHESTRA, satirizing how intelligence agencies could influence startups and open source. It is a humorous but pointed look at surveillance and subverted software.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as an entertaining talk showing that targeting software projects and introducing bugs is nothing new.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- cnxlinux
- Topic
- surveillance and open source
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I would say after watching this almost everybody could be a target of state interest from VCs to a janitor with a cellphone who works at a network they want into [VIDEO] (FosDem2014 presention) and especially if you have any kind of trust in an …
dobbsbob on Hacker News · 2014-04
In Were Intelligence Agencies Using Heartbleed in November 2013?There’s no research going on here. Everyone knows buggy patches can get into a project. Submitting intentionally bad patches adds nothing beyond grandstanding. They could perform analysis of review/acceptance by looking at past patches that introduced bugs without being the bad actors that they apparently …
wang_li on Hacker News · 2021-04
In “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
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