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NSA operation ORCHESTRA Annual Status Report - FOSDEM 2014

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Privacy, surveillance & cybercrimeSatire & parodyHacker culture & free software

What it is

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 Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as an entertaining talk showing that targeting software projects and introducing bugs is nothing new.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “I would say after watching this almost everybody could be a target of state interest”

    FOSDEM talk on NSA targeting; shows anyone can be a target.

    dobbsbob, 2014-04 · Recommendation · in “Were Intelligence Agencies Using Heartbleed in November 2013?”

  2. “It’s pretty entertaining and illustrates that this is nothing new.”

    Entertaining FOSDEM talk showing malicious patch submission is nothing new.

    wang_li, 2021-04 · Recommendation · in ““They introduce kernel bugs on purpose””

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Topics: nsa, fosdem, poul-henning kamp, surveillance, open source

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