[drvdevd]

Also:

> LinkedIn will show you the professional discipline, GitHub the shared libraries and their publicity.

I would guess that NSA has a firm grasp on this sort of basic OSINT problem and code attribution techniques.

[wjnc]

Retroactively scrubbing a programmers published work and social media participance is a red flag in itself.

[dogma1138]

Indeed from what we also know or is suspected at least this is a group which is external to the NSA.

It could consist of former NSA employees and military personnel but it's not clear if this is a fully sanctioned group or just really good hackers for hire.

[lostboys67]

Like many NSA or GCHQ developers will have a public account on github