THE VIDEO SHELF · nsa sabotage of open source
NSA operation ORCHESTRA: Annual Status Report
Poul-Henning Kamp's FOSDEM 2014 talk is a hypothetical account of how an intelligence agency such as the NSA would sabotage open source software, standards and online discussion. It covers Skype's history, OpenSSL and psyops against standards.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN returned to it repeatedly, especially after Heartbleed, as an eye-opening argument about subverting open source and standards.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- HUP
- Topic
- nsa sabotage of open source
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 9
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2019
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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Check out phk's fosdem talk[0]. I've linked to the the part where he talks about openSSL, but I'd suggest watching the whole thing. I'm now starting to believe the talk wasn't a joke at all... [0] [VIDEO]
ensmotko on Hacker News · 2014-04
In "OpenSSL has exploit mitigation countermeasures to make sure it's exploitable"There's a talk that was given in Belgium / Brussels at FOSDEM2014 two months ago or so by Poul-Henning Kamp (FreeBSD) regarding the NSA and how he'd do it if he had to create holes in software: [VIDEO] He's talking specifically about OpenSSL quite a …
TacticalCoder on Hacker News · 2014-04
In "OpenSSL has exploit mitigation countermeasures to make sure it's exploitable"Debian's 2006 PRNG anyone?! Maybe these are stupid dumb mistakes, but if I were NSA this is exactly how I'd implement backdoors. 2 lines of code cloned here (go to fail), 2 lines of code commented out there (Debian PRNG issue), and just like that …
higherpurpose on Hacker News · 2014-04
In Julian Assange: "Debian Is Owned By The NSA"
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