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<font size="+1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">When I see articles on
our complicated new world I often think back to my Fathers
tavern in Baltimore during the 50's.<br>
I can remember guys at the bar trying to figure out how they got
the dot to follow the words of a song on the the Mitch Miller
Show.<br>
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RICHARD BARTH wrote on 6/21/2017 2:38 PM:
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<p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color:
transparent;">From Sophos Security:</span></p>
<h2>NSA posts tools on GitHub</h2>
<p>We’re all more familiar with the NSA’s software than we
might want to be, thanks to the<a
href="https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/?s=wannacry">WannaCry
outbreak</a>in May that built on<a
href="https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/?s=eternalblue">EternalBlue</a>,
a tool developed by the NSA as part of its armoury of
weaponised exploits and unleashed on the world<a
href="https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/?s=shadow+brokers">via
the Shadow Brokers’ dump</a>.</p>
<p>Now the Shadow Brokers – and anyone else interested in the
tools the NSA has developed – can go to the agency’s newly
created<a href="https://nationalsecurityagency.github.io/">GitHub
page</a>, where it’s sharing some of its open-source
tools. These include one to identify prohibited or
unexpected security certificates on Windows machines, a
portable VPN built with Linux and a Raspberry Pi, and an
architecture for processing streaming sources.</p>
<p>The GitHub page is part of the agency’s slow move to being
more open:<a href="https://twitter.com/NSAGov">it joined
Twitter in 2013</a>– the same year its former employee<a
href="https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/?s=edward+snowden">Edward
Snowden</a>revealed the documents he’d stolen from them –
and now boasts nearly 357,000 followers.</p>
<p>The aim of joining GitHub is to “work with agency
innovators who wish to use this collaborative model for
transferring their technology to the commercial
marketplace”, says the agency.</p>
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