I wonder what this means for sanctions/US GOV action.
"Oh, we need to know all the programmers that reside in Iran."
"Let's look at github!"
Or Maybe it's as insidious as hoping some state orgs\Iran based enterprises would use github actively to host and commit code into their infrastructure.
It reminds me when I first became aware of how social media companies allow "terrorist" pages up - while there is some chance of recruitment, the intelligence gathered from metadata, who browses, time of engagement and such is much, much more valuable.
Super curious, and interesting, how "nice/good" gestures can be all part of a game.
"Oh, we need to know all the programmers that reside in Iran."
"Let's look at github!"
Or Maybe it's as insidious as hoping some state orgs\Iran based enterprises would use github actively to host and commit code into their infrastructure.
It reminds me when I first became aware of how social media companies allow "terrorist" pages up - while there is some chance of recruitment, the intelligence gathered from metadata, who browses, time of engagement and such is much, much more valuable.
Super curious, and interesting, how "nice/good" gestures can be all part of a game.