Army open-sources cyber defense code in new GitHub project

http://scienceblog.com/76752/army-open-sources-cyber-defense-code-new-github-project/

by JTF195 • 11 years ago

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JTF195• 11 years ago

The article didn't have a link to the GitHub project page, so here it is: https://github.com/USArmyResearchLab/Dshell

r3bl3• 11 years ago

This is exactly what I was trying to point out. If you put an article about something, be sure to link it.

visakanv• 11 years ago

It drives me crazy when this doesn't happen– especially in news articles talking about some study here or there- why not link to the actual study?! I end up having to Google for it, click around a bunch of bad navigation... very painful.

sarciszewski• 11 years ago

This is pretty cool. I didn't know the Army Research Lab used Python in any of their projects.

Thanks for sharing this.

nmb• 11 years ago

http://www.amazon.com/Violent-Python-Cookbook-Penetration-En...

fabulist2• 11 years ago

What is the relevance?

frozenport• 11 years ago

From the author of `How I Penetration Tested Your Mother`?

hga• 11 years ago

As of a decade ago the intelligence community loved open source, and in the domain I was in it took more than a song and dance to get them to accept Windows as an OS for your stuff instead of Linux.

We should rather be surprised if they aren't using wildly popular tools like Python (although not any particular one, since like in the civilian world different communities tend to pick out a small set of tools to work with, e.g. Google has only 4 or so blessed languages).

dmix• 11 years ago

(Released >1 month ago)

nether• 11 years ago

This is leet.

drderidder• 11 years ago

Why is this better than tshark?

meowface• 11 years ago

More fine-grained filtering and more options in general. For example, you can filter by country, or analyze NetFlow rather than pcaps.

jdawg77• 11 years ago

Dshell was released on December 17th; last month. Press release from the US Army on Jan 28th (3 days ago...) would be a better, more official source than this blog.

http://www.army.mil/article/141734/Army_cyber_defenders_open...

The guy looks, imho, a bit like Tony Stark. That's pretty cool, the money quote is this one: "If soldiers eat it, wear it, touch it, fly it, ride it or ship it, we make it." Makers. Gotta love 'em. Funny timing, December 17th is 4 days after my patent pending in cryptography. Then, the press release was same day I offered a small amount for my company, publicly.

Media's taken a few days to catch up, or a few weeks, depending on your POV.

okasaki• 11 years ago

Considering the secret obsessed world of the military, this seems like the ultimate proof that "cyber warfare" is worthless to them.

johnny99• 11 years ago

Where do they get the "2,000 unique visitors" bit from? And 100 downloads... are they referring to the 92 forks?

I think Public Affairs does not get Github.

zulko• 11 years ago

For a given repo Github gives you the daily number of visits and unique visitors, as well as the number of times the repo was cloned (they don't give you the number of downloads of the zipped sources).

aw3c2• 11 years ago

Huh, where do I find those?

edit: Ah! They hide behind the bar chart diagram icon, /graphs/traffic

1369ic• 11 years ago

I've never talked with the ARL PAO folks about open source, but in general you're right. They have several writers who have to cover everything ARL does (that they can talk about). So they're like most civilian reporters: generalists who talk to experts to learn enough about an event or subject to write a report for an audience that knows less -- or nothing -- about the subject.

Full disclosure: I work in the PAO at RDECOM, of which ARL is a part.

crimsonalucard• 11 years ago

if i were in the intelligence community i would introduce cyber defense code with some very obscure flaws. Not flaws in the code itself but flaws in the algorithm.

If the code happens to gain traction. I would would then use that flaw to my advantage.

forkerenok• 11 years ago

I wonder if contribution to that repo (or alike, i.e. affiliated with some gov's defense orgs) would be considered a treason in some countries...

Army open-sources cyber defense code in new GitHub project

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