" The core codebase consists of 200,000 lines of code (mainly Java) and 100s of pages of documentation."<p>100s of pages of documentation is a promising start for any open source project.
Some time ago I met some people from the .gov cyber security, NSA and other offices. The head of the .gov office on cyber security was really nice and invited me to go to dinner with them.<p>The guy from the NSA was hands down the biggest evil piece of shit I have ever experienced in my life. The way he talked, what he said, and the fact that he was given free reign to commit crimes in his training, which he openly bragged about, made me want to murder the guy right then and there.<p>I lost any and all respect for what the government and the NSA do.
Given that the charter of given agency is certainly not to produce FLOSS, and most certainly not for the pleasure of a foundation which has its worst adversaries as founders (hint: Ben Laurie).<p>It would be most plausible to have direct access to the build infrastructure, which in turn would give access to ... without the hoops of going through Oracle and IBM or whatever corporate projects.<p>And if you read the spiegel article (which has to do) with Ben's past-present, it is clear, that the USA is on the "offensive". The surest way to discredit any anonymity provider for whistle-blowers is to discredit the providers. Which has just happened in the last few days (note, that the contents of the 7z itself was already past 0-day, and therefore valueless, as a USA Official noted in the article).
It seems that the tags for cells seems to be an important feature of this database, and they also mention it is appropriate for places where "privacy is important". Can someone explain the connection between these two? If I'm understanding right, the labeling makes it easy to address individual cells, but I'm not sure how that enhances privacy.
Awesome NSA...<p>So NoSQL approach makes all those skiddies SQLi attacks moot.<p>Still 200k lines of code = ~2000 bugs...<p>So, opening it to the public will expose (some) of those, and fixes will be created.
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Now, when are you going to show off that really kool advanced A.I. you guys are sitting on!