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Investigation of NSA contributions to SEAndroid

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  1. Investigating the commits in SEAndroid: Who ar the people working on the "security" on Android devices. What is in the commits of the various NSA engineers and Defense Contractors working on it?
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  3. I dug into the source to see who the commiters are.
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  5. From: https://bitbucket.org/seandroid/external-libselinux/commits/all
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  7. Recent Commiters on SEAndroid
  8. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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  10. Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>, NSA
  11. http://www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/science_tech/us-government-military-to-get-secure-android-phones
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  13. Geremy Condra <gcondra@google.com>, Student/Google Engineer?
  14. https://twitter.com/g_c_c
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  16. Alice Chu, Samsung
  17. http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2876686&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=-X8a&locale=en_US&srchid=b4ad676a-85a0-4a6c-9ad1-d4591b4a43c0-0&srchindex=8&srchtotal=94&goback=.fps_PBCK_*1_alice_chu_*1_*1_*1_*1_*2_*1_Y_*1_*1_*1_false_1_R_*1_*51_*1_*51_true_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2&pvs=ps&trk=pp_profile_name_link
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  19. William Roberts, Tresys Technology http://www.tresys.com/ - Defense Contractor?
  20. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/william-roberts/30/686/164
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  22. Steve Lawrence <slawrence@tresys.com>
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  24. Kenny Root, Google Engineer
  25. https://the-b.org/Android
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  27. Robert Craig <rpcraig@tycho.ncsc.mil> NSA
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  29. Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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  31. Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
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  33. Richard Haines <richard_c_haines@btinternet.
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  35. Harry Ciao <qingtao.cao@windriver.com>
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  37. Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
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  39. Jason Axelson <jaxelson@referentia.com> (security / government contractor??)
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  41. Martin Orr <martin@martinorr.name> (cryptographer/academic)
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  43. James Carter <jwcart2@tycho.nsa.gov> NSA
  44. http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0907.2/01789.html
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  46. KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
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  48. Eamon Walsh <ewalsh@tycho.nsa.gov>
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  50. Chad Sellers <csellers@tresys.com>
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  52. Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
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  54. Joshua Brindle <method@manicmethod.com>
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  56. Xavier Toth <txtoth@gmail.com>
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  58. Karl MacMillan <kmacmillan@tresys.com>
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  60. Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
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  62. Paul Nuzzi <pjnuzzi@tycho.ncsc.mil>
  63.  
  64. Caleb Case <ccase@tresys.com>
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  66. Thomas Liu <tliu@redhat.com>
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  68. Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>
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  70. Hiroshi Shinji <hiroshi.shinji@gmail.com>
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  72. Marshall Miller <mmiller@tresys.com>
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  74. Christian Kuester <c.kuester@tarent.de>
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  76. Vesa-Matti J Kari <vmkari@cc.helsinki.fi>
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  78. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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  80. The next step is for crypto engineers to figure out what all of these commits do, what features have been added by NSA and see what backdoors lurk.
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