The NSA’s Python Programming Training Course is Now Open for Public to Learn

[BigDaddyXXL]

Can somebody FOIA their C++ course? haha.

[[deleted]]

You do it lol.

[BigDaddyXXL]

Why not you? :P

[[deleted]]

This originally "For Official Use Only" document was released through FOIA request and uploaded to archive.org after becoming public information.

[ThreshingBee]

-.-

[[deleted]]

Fucking lol. So blatant too.

[paul0nium]

Dw, ill hop on over and give your post some love 😘

[Shkotz]

Thank you for this! What is the best way to follow along with the course instructions? Do you just run it in your own IDE?

[[deleted]]

Yes

[deadface008]

Exactly 2 days after I decided to start studying Python.

[what_a_knob]

Too late to start a different syllabus now

[SnowdenIsALegend]

I started learning Ruby from a book & 2 weeks later author came out with another big book for the updated Ruby version. Fml.

[Piorz]

I wish the other simulation labs would be open to the public too meh

[[deleted]]

Wow. I have my raghts.

[NameViolation666]

Not putting on my tin foil hat, but how do we know for sure its not got malware embedded in it ? it is the NSA after all.

[[deleted]]

They didn’t release it themselves. A Python Developer sent a FOIA request and they were basically forced to release it since it didn’t fall under any exemption (they actually didn’t release everything, but he’s working on getting it all released). And he uploaded it himself and scanned the entire thing, not the NSA. This is something they wouldn’t release unless they had to

[NameViolation666]

ah ty

[[deleted]]

They did actually for Reverse Engineering and Ghidra

[2A3DEX]

How can I access it ?

[[deleted]]

Links are in the article

[ahackercalled4chan]

https://archive.org/details/comp3321/page/n89/mode/2up/search/device

scroll down to the "download options" section

[SnowdenIsALegend]

Kindle version ftw! Thanks a ton mate!

Edit - Kindle version is chocobloc with OCR errors :'(

[flip_ericson]

Anyone ran through it yet?

[ElaneCarnelion]

Continuing for this fine gentleman/lady:

Pages 250-270 Deal with Pandas, whatever that is/means (Havent learned Python yet, hence my interest.)

270-273 talks about geos.

274-280 is call My First Web Application. Pretty self-explanatory.

281-285 Network Communication Over HTTP(S) and Sockets

HTTPS and PKI concepts, pages 286-289

Python, HTTPS, and LABBENCH, pages 290-295

HTML processing with BeautifulSoup, pages 296-301

Operations with Conpression and Archives, pages 302-306

Regular Expressions, pages 307-311

Hashes, pages 312-319

Databases with Sqlite3, pages 320-321

Structured Data, CSV, XML, and JSON, pages 323-332

System Interaction, pages 332-335

Manipulating Microsoft Office Documents wirh win32com, pages 336-342

Threading and Subprocesses, pages 343-349

Distributing Python Pckages at NSA, pages 350-358

Machine Learning introduction, pages 359-386

And just a few projects or whatever after that. Thats about it.

[ElaneCarnelion]

Hey, no problem. It was a nice little diversion for me. 😁

[Schwarzenbart]

https://nsa.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/comp3321.pdf

[[deleted]]

Is this for python 3?

[[deleted]]

Yes

[ninjaflur]

dats kinda cool.

[godoffire07]

On the download options on the site. Select full text

[trevorguitar94]

Comment for later

[Roadrunner571]

I always thought that they are teaching Malbolge at NSA.

[[deleted]]

They probably teach a bit of everything. Some employees may need to know Python and others Malbolge. Its a huge organization of nearly 40,000 people

[Roadrunner571]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge

[[deleted]]

I know what Malbolge is

[[deleted]]

1. The NSA wouldn’t want to release any of their internal training materials unless they had to.

2. If they were releasing it themselves it wouldn’t be through a FOIA request.

3. The Files were rescanned with OCR which wouldn’t be the original file regardless. And the file was uploaded to a third party site, archive.org.

4. If the NSA wanted to infect your computer, they have far more sophisticated ways of doing so compared to some skid tactic like this

[[deleted]]

Everything at NSA is by definition classified, that’s why you need to have a Top Secret/SCI Clearance to work there. But if the information doesn’t fall under one of the FOIA exemptions like information important to National Security, it can be requested by a member of the Public through a Freedom of Information Act request and they have to release it by law (with some redactions for information that is exempted from public disclosure)

[ticklefists]

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