NSA leaks: Dishfire revelations have exposed the flaws in UK laws on surveillance | Heather Brooke. What we have no words for we cannot discuss except crudely. The latest revelation about the security services brings a new word to our growing vocabulary: Dishfire. This week's exposé reveals the NSA collecting and extracting personal information from hundreds of millions of text messages a day. While messages from US phone numbers are removed from the database, documents show GCHQ used it to search the metadata of "untargeted and unwarranted" communications belonging to British citizens. We are not so much free citizens, innocent until proven guilty, but rather, as one of the Dishfire slides says, a "rich data set awaiting exploitation". Prism, Tempora, Upstream, Bullrun – as our language grows we begin to speak with greater clarity. We move from James Bond fantasies to a greater understanding of what the intelligence services actually do in our name and with our money.
It is proving bad for business. In the UK, Ripa forbids the contents of interceptions from being used in court. NSA collecting SMS messages in bulk, says reporting based on latest Snowden document. The latest revelation gleaned from the trove of Edward Snowden-leaked documents shows the National Security Agency collecting almost 200 million SMS text messages a day from across the globe, "using them to extract data including location, contact networks and credit card details, according to top secret documents," reports The Guardian in an investigation undertaken with UK's Channel 4 News.
This latest example of mass surveillance undertaken by the NSA is code named Dishfire, the British newspaper says, basing its article in great part on a 2011 TOP SECRET//COMINT//REL TO USA, FVEY presentation. The slides show that Dishfire collected an average of 194 million text messages a day in April 2011. Another program dubbed Prefer "conducted automated analysis on the untargeted communications," the Guardian says.
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DISHFIRE: The Program That Lets the NSA Capture Almost 200 Million Texts a Day. We shouldn't even be surprised anymore. New documents provided by Edward Snowden, and investigated on by the UK's Channel 4 News and The Guardian, reveal that the NSA has a program called Dishfire that can collect "pretty much everything it can. " The files handed over by Snowden reveal a key NSA presentation in 2011 that shows Dishfire was able to collect a mean of 194 million SMS text messages every day in April. In the presentation, they referred to the collection as "a goldmine to exploit. " The agency can also gather location data, contacts, and financial transactions of users—even if they aren't suspected of doing anything illegal—through the program.
Once Dishfire gets grabs these messages, they are analyzed by a service called Prefer, which then gives the agency a detailed report. The NSA has also helped the British spy agency GCHQ, by letting them search the data of "untargeted and unwarranted” messages of British citizens. Check out the full report at The Guardian. NSA Dishfire presentation on text message collection – key extracts – Utne Altwire. Slate Magazine 5 days ago 5 days ago Oh, Portland. A teenager urinated into one of the city’s drinking water reservoirs the other day. That’s gross, sure, and aggravating—what a brat!
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The texts help the NSA to track people's whereabouts, their contacts, their banking details and their movements if they travelled from country to country, it is claimed. Dishfire collects data on everyone so by accessing the system, British spies can pull off information they wouldn't be entitled to under strict British laws. NSA reportedly collects nearly 200M text messages every day | Politics and Law.
The US National Security Agency is collecting millions of "untargeted" text message from across the globe on a daily basis, according to a report from The Guardian. An NSA program, codenamed Dishfire, collects and stores nearly 200 million global SMS messages a day, reported The Guardian on Thursday, citing documents provide by NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden. The program reaches beyond existing surveillance targets and collects "pretty much everything it can," according to the report. The NSA has extracted information such as "people's travel plans, contact books, financial transactions and more -- including of individuals under no suspicion of illegal activity," said The Guardian, which worked with UK's Channel 4 News on its investigation of the program.
UK spy agency GCHQ also made use of the NSA's text message database for "untargeted and unwarranted" searches of communications of people in the UK, according to the report. NSA collects 200mn SMSes-a-day worldwide for 'snoop-ops' The US' intelligence agency reportedly collected 200 million text messages a day worldwide as part of its wider mass surveillance programme. According to classified documents revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency used the messages to extract data including location, contact networks and credit card details. The data collected by the NSA, under the programme codenamed 'Dishfire', had been used by its UK counterpart, the GCHQ, to search the metadata of "untargeted and unwarranted" communications belonging to people in the UK, the Guardian reports.
The documents indicated that Dishfire collected "pretty much everything it can", and not merely storing the communications of existing surveillance targets. Meanwhile, Vodafone, one of the world's largest mobile phone companies with operations in 25 countries including Britain, has expressed shock and surprise to the latest revelations. The NSA reportedly collects a mind-blowing number of texts every day. The leaked materials provided by NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden have revealed yet another worrisome surveillance program, this one focused on text messages.
Called "Dishfire," the program reportedly involves the collection of up to nearly 200 million text messages every single day. Even more troublesome is the assertion that the NSA isn't targeting anyone in particular, but nonspecific groups of apparently randomly selected people across the globe. Dishfire was unearthed by The Guardian, which collaborated with the UK's Channel 4 News for its report.
Striking gold Much of the information in The Guardian's report stems from a 2011 NSA presentation titled "Content Extraction Enhancements for Target Analytics. " Tellingly, the subtitle for that presentation reads "SMS Text Messages: A Goldmine to Exploit. " A related program called "Prefer" reportedly involves the extraction of metadata from automatic text messages like missed call alerts, roaming notifications and more. Via TechCrunch. NSA Reportedly Collected Millions Of Phone Texts Every Day. Posted: January 16, 2014 A presentation slide cited by The Guardian is subtitled "SMS Text Messages: A Goldmine to Exploit.
" The top secret Dishfire text-collection program was reportedly both global and arbitrary. The NSA used a program codenamed Dishfire to collect text messages worldwide that were then used to extract location and financial data, according to The Guardian. Here, women use their cellphones in Los Angeles earlier this month. As recently as 2011, the National Security Agency was collecting almost 200 million text messages each day, according to a new story by The Guardian that cites documents from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
An image posted by The Guardian shows a presentation slide titled "Content Extraction Enhancements For Target Analytics: SMS Text Messages: A Goldmine to Exploit. " The NSA's collection of text messages in the program, codenamed Dishfire, is arbitrary, The Guardian says, and the information is stored in a database for potential future uses. NSA collects millions of global text messages. Thursday 16 January 2014 23.39 America's National Security Agency has collected almost 200 million text messages a day from across the globe according to the latest leak from former US spy Edward Snowden. The claims are made by Channel 4 News and the Guardian newspaper who have seen a classified April 2011 presentation which discusses Dishfire, a database that collects nearly 200 million texts every day from around the world.
Dishfire traces people when they take their mobile phone abroad by capturing the welcome text message that is triggered by your arrival overseas. This tells agents where you were and when you got there. It is claimed the texts help the NSA to track people's whereabouts, their contacts, their banking details and their movements if they travelled from country to country.
Under US law, the American spies had to delete the data for its own citizens but texts coming to and from international mobile phones - were fair game and could be spied upon at will. UK spies 'snooping on texts' (From Clacton and Frinton Gazette) UK spies 'snooping on texts' 7:02pm Thursday 16th January 2014 in National News © Press Association 2014 Former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden says British spies are accessing a secret US database collecting text messages British spies are able to look at texts scooped up in a secret operation which collects hundreds of millions of the messages, according to the latest leak from former US spy Edward Snowden. America's National Security Agency (NSA) has created a secret database called Dishfire which stores messages for future use and British spies, who face tough British laws, have been given a back door to exploit that information, it was claimed. The claims are made by Channel 4 News and the Guardian who have seen a classified April 2011 presentation which discusses Dishfire, a database that collects nearly 200 million texts everyday from around the world.
"But what you're describing is something that sounds as if that's been circumvented. Report: NSA exploited SMS text message 'goldmine' in 'Dishfire' program | News | DW.DE | 17.01.2014. Missed calls, border crossings, credit card payment authorizations, geotagging, route planning and arranging meetings: Even our more banal SMS text messages can yield telling data, as the US National Security Agency (NSA) is reportedly well aware. The Guardian newspaper and Britain's Channel 4 News jointly reported late on Thursday that the NSA had been gathering data on millions of SMS text messages per day, in an operation codenamed "Dishfire. " The report was based on a June 2011 NSA presentation, obtained via fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, with the subtitle: "SMS Text Messages: A Goldmine to Exploit.
" As published on the Guardian website, the NSA document appeared to claim that in April of 2011, the NSA scooped up an average of 194 million such messages per day. NSA: Neither arbitrary nor unconstrained "As we have previously stated, the implication that NSA's collection is arbitrary and unconstrained is false," the NSA statement said. msh/jr (AFP, dpa, Reuters) NSA collects millions of text messages globally in 'Dishfire' program: Report. The U.S. National Security Agency has been gathering nearly 200 million text messages a day from around the world, gathering data on people's travel plans, contacts and credit card transactions, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported on Thursday.
Code-named "Dishfire," the NSA program collects "pretty much everything it can," the Guardian said, citing a joint investigation with the UK's Channel 4 News based on material from fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The newspaper said the documents also showed that the British spy agency GCHQ had used the NSA database to search the metadata of "untargeted and unwarranted" communications of people in the United Kingdom. It added that communications from U.S. phone numbers were removed or "minimized" from the database, while numbers from other countries, including the UK, were kept. U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to announce reforms on Friday to NSA eavesdropping programs, prompted by disclosures from Snowden. NSA leaks: British spies were given access to US 'Dishfire' system that reads hundreds of millions of texts from around the world - Gadgets & Tech - Life & Style.
The program enables US spies to intercept messages sent between countries, welcome messages sent to people when they arrive in a different country, text-based financial transactions, missed-call alerts and business cards, The Guardian and Channel 4 News reported. UK spy agency GCHQ has reportedly been given full access to the information, raising concern that British privacy laws are being circumvented. The NSA has to delete innocent texts involving Americans from the system but there is no requirement to do so for foreign phone numbers. Mobile phone company Vodafone said it was concerned by the revelations and planned to raise the matter with the British Government.
A leaked GCHQ memo spelled out Dishfire was useful because it trawled through text messages without targeting suspected terrorists, for instance. “In contrast to GCHQ equivalents, DISHFIRE contains a large volume of unselected SMS traffic,” it states. “We always investigate these matters. NSA leaks: British spies were given access to US 'Dishfire' system that reads hundreds of millions of texts from around the world - Gadgets & Tech - Life & Style. Put your emoji where we can see them! The NSA collected text messages, too.
NSA's Dishfire program collects millions of text messages daily, report says. ‘DISH FIRE’: New Snowden Leak Reveals NSA Collecting Over 200,000,000 Text Messages PER DAY. The Hacker News - Security in a Serious Way: DISHFIRE. Dishfire - Dave Ross Blog. Prairie Weather: "Dishfire" -- 200 million text messages daily. Dishfire and What Obama Couldn't Say About the NSA - New Yorker (blog) NSA Reportedly Collected Millions Of Phone Texts Every Day. How to debate Dishfire?