GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development

Re:GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development by cm3 on Monday May 16, 2016 @04:41AM (#11705028)

Wait, the GCHQ has a GitHub profile where they share a Graph Database engine. Interesting.

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Re:GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development by bshimmin on Monday May 16, 2016 @04:55AM (#11705082)

"Gaffer's Accumulo Store is optimised for: Ingesting large amounts of data efficiently."

For some reason that made me feel slightly nervous.

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Re:GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development by sievebrain on Monday May 16, 2016 @05:26AM (#11705204)

Well it's not a secret anymore why GCHQ/NSA need large graph databases.

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Re:GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development by knorker on Monday May 16, 2016 @06:44AM (#11705457)

When was it?

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Re:GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development by based2 on Monday May 16, 2016 @07:35AM (#11705639)

http://accumulo.apache.org/

https://nifi.apache.org/

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Re:GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development by knorker on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @09:38AM (#11713495)

I mean when was it a secret that and why GCHQ needed large graph databases?

It's kinda obvious.

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Re:GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development by jjp on Monday May 16, 2016 @05:02AM (#11705107)

Think it was announced a few months ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10732609

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Re:GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development by kirykl on Monday May 16, 2016 @09:41AM (#11706158)

NSA has a linux distro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux

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Re:GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development by floatboth on Monday May 16, 2016 @02:36PM (#11708497)

SELinux is not a distro. It's an Linux Security Module (Mandatory Access Control thing) that comes with the upstream kernel that sysadmins need to STOP TURNING OFF: http://stopdisablingselinux.com

There are alternatives though. SELinux was designed for big machines with multiple physical users. You can use it with pretty much any scenario (and Android uses it for sandboxing apps), but AppArmor is much easier for common personal desktops and web servers.

On FreeBSD and Darwin, the similar thing is TrustedBSD: http://www.trustedbsd.org/mac.html

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Re:GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development by xrorre on Monday May 16, 2016 @10:25AM (#11706448)

Qubes is exponetially superior to this distro. Open that PDF in a disposable Fedora sandbox, and physically disable the network plz

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Re:GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development by justinclift on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @07:10AM (#11712584)

Because sandbox escapes aren't a thing GCHQ would have any knowledge of yeah?

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Re:GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development by abk77 on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @07:10AM (#11712585)

yes qubes is

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Re:GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development by th0br0 on Monday May 16, 2016 @05:07AM (#11705131)

The sad thing is that they seem to be developing Gaffer on Windows. At least most files in the repo have the +x bit set...

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