Don't like this very much, but if it's the only way...
Maybe focus on job ads like Stack Overflow.
Then:
- like YouTube, pay creators proportionally to views/metrics
- paid subscription to remove ads from site
Association with innovative schools by
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-02-26 +Created 1970-01-01
Maybe we should talk to innovative schools, as they might be more open to such use of technology.
Not a fun of giving up control for such a low-maintenance cost venture... but keeping a list just in case...
More info at: docs.ourbigbook.com#ourbigbook-web-topics
Ciro Santilli has enjoyed doing projects dealing with with lots of data! They usually have a large overlap with Ciro Santilli's naughty projects, but not always!
Ciro Santilli's open source contributions by
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-02-26 +Created 1970-01-01
This is mostly stuff from before 2016 when Ciro was anxious to document his contributions to get a job.
Most of the projects here are also minor contributions, or Ciro later noticed that the projects were not useful enough to work on and that he was actually wasting his time.
Only patches which were reviewed by at least one person with push permission will be listed here.
This may also include patches which were rejected in favor of another patch, but strongly influenced the merged patch.
Patches which were merged by Ciro himself on repositories which eh feels have large public visibility, e.g. those to which he has been given push permission.
Repositories to which Ciro gained push permission because of his contributions:
The following contributions where not immediately verified by others, but they were not reverted either and I think they are good.
Date | Project | Type | Description |
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2014-12 | plasticboy/vim-markdown | Review patch | Add tilde-fenced code blocks |
Contains the first sporadic groups discovered by far: 11 and 12 in 1861, and 22, 23 and 24 in 1973. And therefore presumably the simplest! The next sporadic ones discovered were the Janko groups, only in 1965!
Each is a permutation group on elements. There isn't an obvious algorithmic relationship between and the actual group.
TODO initial motivation? Why did Mathieu care about k-transitive groups?
Their; k-transitive group properties seem to be the main characterization, according to Wikipedia:Looking at the classification of k-transitive groups we see that the Mathieu groups are the only families of 4 and 5 transitive groups other than symmetric groups and alternating groups. 3-transitive is not as nice, so let's just say it is the stabilizer of and be done with it.
- 22 is 3-transitive but not 4-transitive.
- four of them (11, 12, 23 and 24) are the only sporadic 4-transitive groups as per the classification of 4-transitive groups (no known simpler proof as of 2021), which sounds like a reasonable characterization. Note that 12 and 25 are also 5 transitive.
Mathieu group section of Why Do Sporadic Groups Exist? by Another Roof (2023)
Source. Only discusses Mathieu group but is very good at that.2010 Wayback Machine archive of starwarsweb.net
. The Star Wars one. Clearly branded websites like this are rare, which makes finding them all the much more fun. The Reuters article had two of them (Carson and rastadirect.net), so these were probably manually selected from the full hit dataset, and did not serve specifically as entry points. Most of the websites are quite boring and forgetful as you'd expect.
The subtitle "Beyond The Unknown" may be a reference to the Unknown Regions in the Star Wars fictional universe.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of iranfootballsource.com
. The third Iranian football on top of the two other published by Reuters: iraniangoalkicks.com and iraniangoals.com! Admittedly, this one is the most generic and less well designed one. But still. They pushed the theme too far!2010 Wayback Machine archive of dedrickonline.com
. The German one.
The CIA has had a few Germany espionage scandals in the 2010s:
- 2014 www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28243933: a German Intelligence Agency agent was arrested for spying for the CIA
- 2021 www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spied-merkel-other-top-european-officials-through-danish-2021-05-30/ U.S. spied on Merkel and other Europeans through Danish cables
- 2020 www.dw.com/en/how-the-uss-cia-and-germanys-bnd-spied-on-world-leaders/a-52358527 it was revealed that Germany and the USA had an agreement to spy on world leaders, notably via compromised Swiss company Crypto AG
2010 Wayback Machine archive of lesummumdelafinance.com
. A French one. Because it mentions VTT (Mountain Biking in French), it must focus France.2011 Wayback Machine archive of attivitaestremi.com
. An Italian one about extreme sports.2010 Wayback Machine archive of noticiasmusica.net
. The Brazilian one.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of economicnewsbuzz.com
. The Korean one. Love the kawaii style!2011 Wayback Machine archive of snapnewsfront.net
. The Japanese one.2010 Wayback Machine archive of philippinenewsonline.net
. The Philippine one one.2011 Wayback Machine archive of feedsdemexicoyelmundo.com
. The Mexican one.2012 Wayback Machine archive of easytraveleurope.com
. 2011 Wayback Machine archive of tee-shot.net
. One of the many golf-themed sites. Golf appears to be quite popular over in Langley. It's exactly what you'd expect for a mid-level spook to do in their free time!2011 Wayback Machine archive of nouvellesetdesrapports.com
. 2011 Wayback Machine archive of pangawana.com
. 2011 Wayback Machine archive of recuerdosdeviajeonline.com
. 2011 Wayback Machine archive of theworld-news.net
. 2011 Wayback Machine archive of kessingerssportsnews.com
. 2011 Wayback Machine archive of negativeaperture.com
. Initial announcements by self on 2023-06-10:
- twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1667532991315230720. Follow up when more domains were found: twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1717445686214504830
- www.reddit.com/r/OSINT/comments/146185r/i_found_16_new_cia_covert_communication_websites/. Marked as SPAM 5 by mods days later. After reaching 92 votes, a very positive reply for that niche sub, and being obviously on topic. Weird. Anyways, did its job and likely kicked off hackernews.
- www.facebook.com/cirosantilli/posts/pfbid04KvRbEXghJakcD4AQz4379L5oVjPZ6vrBF1Eak3p81VnqRSXuXdvvYonCWPhGfQXl
Shared by others soo after:
- 2023-06-11:
- news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36279375#36280220 (212 points). Shame that this was published when we only had about 20 websites. As of writing we had 240. Might have been a greater hit then.
- Google Analytics backlink from lms.fh-wedel.de/ path unknown. Some shitty German university: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fachhochschule_Wedel_University_of_Applied_Sciences LMS stands for Learning management system, apparently a Moodle instance. Maybe they have some Open educational resources, but all in German so pointless
- www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/14705gp/cia_2010_covert_communication_websites/ failed attempt with bad link unfortunately
- a few days later:
- 2023-06-19 www.reddit.com/r/numberstations/comments/14dexiu/after_numbers_stations_vanished/ (30 points) off topic on that sub, but thankfully was not deleted, interesting sub topic
2023-10-26 twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1717445686214504830: announcement by self after finding 75 more sites
Second wave:
- 2023-12-01: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492304 (65 points). Second submission but pointing to OurBigBook.com rather than cirosantilli.com: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites We take those. Reached only 65 points as of January 2024.
- 2023-12-02: buttondown.email/grugq/archive/december-2-2023/. "grugq" is the handle of a zero day dealer whose received some scrutiny in 2012 after a Forbes protile was written about him: archive.ph/7mUG5. He comments:presumably referring to DNS Census 2013.
I don’t think anyone anticipated that databases leaked by hackers would enable OSINT researchers to conduct counterintelligence investigations that rival the state security services.
Some more:/ny
- 2024-01-12: twitter.com/jeremy_wokka/status/1745657801584656564 (40k followers, mid of thread)
- 2024-01-15: Oleg Shakirov's findings, publication announced by Ciro Santilli at: twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1747742453778559165 two days later
- 2024-01-23: ipinf.ru gives 4 hits and 4 new suspects, announced at: mastodon.social/@cirosantilli/111807480628392615
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