
GCHQ has open-sourced its first project on GitHub, a mass-scale graph database called Gaffer that’s written in Java. This move has prompted a whole load of soul-searching in the hacker community as individuals debate whether they should use it or not. Some have applauded the agency for opening up its work for the community to use and build on, while others have suggested that the project comes from an unethical place and should be rejected to protect the integrity of computer scientists. The database can essentially be used for analyzing the internal relationships between different pieces of data. This can be uploaded in bulk or…
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