If...

Got this from 'various' mil and R&D sources...

I was in charge of DOD for a day, Georgia Tech would NEVER get a government contract again, and would have to pay back ALL the $$ sent them!!!

Dr. Emmanouil "Manos" Antonakakis runs a Georgia Tech cybersecurity lab and has attracted millions of dollars in the last few years from the US government for Department of Defense research projects like "Rhamnousia: Attributing Cyber Actors Through Tensor Decomposition and Novel Data Acquisition."

The government yesterday sued Georgia Tech in federal court, singling out Antonakakis and claiming that neither he nor Georgia Tech followed basic (and required) security protocols for years, knew they were not in compliance with such protocols, and then submitted invoices for their DoD projects anyway. (Read the complaint.) The government claims this is fraud:

Full article, HERE from Ars Technica.

For my 'sins' for over a dozen years, I worked with a number of UARCs and FFRDCs (list HERE of DOD S&T organizations) on various R&D programs for the Navy. All of them had stringent security requirements, and they were routinely 'checked' by our security folks for compliance.

EVERY organization I worked with was subject to hacking attempts almost daily by Russian/Chinese/Iranian government organs, and HUMINT intrusions by 'students'...

So the best bet is that anything Georgia Tech was working on was/is compromised and probably has been since day two of it's existence. 

Egos... Gah!!!