NSA operation ORCHESTRA: Annual Status Report

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At FOSDEM 2014, Poul-Henning Kamp presents a fictional NSA staff briefing to satirize organizational weaknesses in technical communities: acquisitions, standards processes, complexity and declining scrutiny of longstanding contributors. He explicitly introduces an imagined scenario; its operation names and specific allegations are not established records of real operations. The useful question is about threat modeling: can familiarity with a contributor replace inspection of their changes? The closing discussion also challenges whether proposed remedies create new burdens.