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The NSA Will Release 'Niagarafiles' Data Analysis Tool as Open Source

posted by janrinok on Wednesday November 26 2014, @03:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'd-prefer-the-data dept.

sigma writes:

A ZDNet story explains that Niagarafiles, renamed as NiFi, will be released under the Apache license. The tool, which is conceptually derived from flow-based programming, is used for automating data flows across multiple networks, even where data formats and protocols differ.

The project's lead developer, Joseph Witt, said the NSA took great pains to develop the tool in a way that would eventually allow the agency to release its source code.

"From its inception, NiFi was developed with an open source philosophy in mind and with the hopes of eventually being truly open sourced," Witt explained.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday November 26 2014, @07:24PM

    by edIII (791) on Wednesday November 26 2014, @07:24PM (#120355)

    You sir, are brave. Also pretty confident.

    Considering some of the recent zero day exploits that were well hidden in open/free source projects for years, I cannot be so confident.

    This gives me great pause as I was ostensibly relying on the Nerdfest's of the world to be vetting the open/free platforms, and this has not turned out so well. For production uses, it works just fine. For security purposes we now live in a world of doubt.

    I dunno man. This is the *NSA*. Have you heard the story of the Scorpion and the Frog?

    Not to be mean, but the NSA can go screw themselves with a cactus. I don't think we can rationally accept anything from them period, and I would even go so far as to never hiring anyone that ever worked anywhere near the NSA. The NSA should congratulate themselves. For people that were trying to make us believe they were working on crypto for Americans and their prosperity and security, they sure did end up like a burned out drug addict that we can't trust anymore because they keep hurting us.

    They're information addicts that have been caught messing with the whole world :)

    Nope. No. Nada. Nyet....

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