NSA has an offense side and a defense side, and they're not that tightly coordinated.

They also have several offense sides, none of which are tightly coordinated. :)

At least they merged / are merging IAD and SID, less confusion more chaos! https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/natio...

Federal government is required to open source at least 20 percent of its code now:

https://sourcecode.cio.gov/

There are pretty big national security exemptions which the NSA could use without any question: https://sourcecode.cio.gov/Exceptions/

That makes this effort even more commendable.

The cynic in me wonders which 20% we'll get. The repo linked here is pretty impressive, so I may have to eat crow. I would have expected to get every html template and vba macro ever written, instead of the value add stuff.

My thoughts exactly. That 20% will probably provide you with a map of Russia while you're​ flying over the Swiss Alps. Some things are better not learned (or known) at all than learned (or known) the wrong way.

Wow, that's great. The US being a first mover in OSS again, a pity that Germany doesn't have this.

That was exactly my thought as well.