[twelve40]

yeah, surprised as well. In finance, there is ofac for people forbidden from moving money, but it's also typically used as a service/db instead of passing around csv files to everyone. Very bizarre.

[mrcode007]

Not sure what service you’re referring to but the file is here:

https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/sdnlist.txt

[from]

There are various aggregators who combine this list and a bunch of other sanctions/related lists like the BIS Entity List which is probably what he was referring to.

[twelve40]

Have you ever witnessed this file being used by companies moving money stored in S3 as "shitlist2019.txt" for screening incoming transactions in production? Because that's what the article is alluding to.

[nibbleshifter]

No, but I have seen it being ingested and turned into some horrendous XML on a weekly basis.

[mrcode007]

I’ve seen it used with grep and awk.

[mproud]

Could this have been an export given to someone upon request? Or maybe served as backup?