Memes and jokes from the CIA archives

The CIA understands the DevOps set of practices.

In the published documents of the CIA a lot of purely technical information for programmers. How to work with Git , how to hide characteristic tags in code , use encryption, use malicious components from other programs. In the archive there are tips with vi / vim "hot keys", Git Immersion reference course. Technical recommendations of the CIA in the near future should be carefully analyzed, especially since the second portion of documents will be published soon. Julian Assange said that in the first archive on ≈600 MB (Year Zero) - this is only 1% of the documents received from the informant.

But now one thing is clear. Exploit developers from the Engineering Development Group (EDG) are just as simple as everyone. They also release programmer jokes and exchange memes, viral pictures with text, animated gifs, with references to pop culture, anime and computer games. This may not be the most valuable part of the archive, but it is there.

Humor is presented in discussions in the internal wiki. In addition, the names of some projects and even the names of hacking tools files are comic, writes ArsTechnica. Files with the names PocketPutin have been mentioned before .
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In some projects, references to pop culture are traced. For example, one intelligence backdoor that installs from a USB flash drive is called Ricky Bobby , named after character Will Ferrell in the sports comedy Ricky Bobby: The King of the Road. In this film, Ricky Bobby had Cal's best friend and teammate. So, the backdoor Ricky Bobby sends data to a listening module called Cal. Here you will not get confused.

Or take a bookmark for iOS (valid from version 7 to 8.2), which is called DRBOOM, after the name of the character Dr. Boom from the Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft board game. It seems that the CIA employees are not averse to spread virtual cards.

The.net host for the VMware ESxi virtual machine is used by employees to test programs in a simulation of a real Internet environment. Domain names in it are also familiar to many gamers:

abstergo.com (Abstergo Industries from Assasin's Creed )
aperturelabs.com (Aperture Laboratories of Portal )
blackmesa.org (Black Mesa from Half-Life )
sarifindustries.com (Sarif Industries of Deus X )
umbrellacorp.com (Umbrella Corp from Resident Evil )

The illustration on the unfinished page for the EFI bookmark in MacOS X operating system called QuarkMatter

In general, the CIA archive files in the / cms / files / folder contain 12 gif files. Half of them are fragments of Japanese anime cartoons, including three fragments from the Trigan anime. That's where the real fans are! More precisely, it is one fan. The fact is that in 2013 the CIA began to use a number of commercial tools for project management, including implementing the Confluence program for project documentation. The system assumes that each developer has a separate web page in the system. Some of the participants did not pay any attention to the system and never updated the web page. Then one of the local pranksters decided to check which of his colleagues had the right to edit personal pages - and defaced them with various pictures, including gifs from Trigan. One of the pictures with the caption lol n00b speaks for itself. And the other as it hints.

The collection of tools for research of the network Rainmaker , which the CIA designed under the guise of a music player, in the project documentation contains an animated GIF from the video clip for the song of the American rapper Fat Joe “Make it Rain”, only with Obama in the lead role.

Gifka from the movie Inception published on the page with the same tool. From the page with the description: “DLL inside the DLL inside another DLL, which intercepts the CD cutter and injects the shellcode to download the DLL inside the executable files. What's so incomprehensible?