Meme details · NSA's XKEYSCORE dissected: All Tor users marked as 'extremists' German Television does first Edward Snowden Interview (ENGLISH) NSA's XKeyscore gathers everything - Monterey tutoring. The first and fourth amendment are in grave danger because the NSA has a program called XKeyscore which can gather everything of your personal data including hacking into your email accounts.
European newspapers claim that the program can retroactively import several days' worth of queued metadata and the content of the communications. A detailed commentary on an NSA presentation published in The Guardian in July 2013 states that the XKeyscore system is continuously collecting so much Internet data that it can be stored only for short periods of time. Content remains on the system for only three to five days, while metadata is stored for 30 days. The commentary also cites a document published in 2008 declaring that "At some sites, the amount of data we receive per day (20+ terabytes) can only be stored for as little as 24 hours.
In July of this year, Congress passed a bill with 205 voting yes and 217 voting no to discontinue the NSA surveillance program. What is XKeyscore, and can it 'eavesdrop on everyone, everywhere'? (+video) Top-secret documents leaked to The Guardian newspaper have set off a new round of debate over National Security Agency surveillance of electronic communications, with some cyber experts saying the trove reveals new and more dangerous means of digital snooping, while some members of Congress suggested that interpretation was incorrect.
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Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said he would work closely with Wisma Putra to look into the allegation by Edward Snowden (pic), a former employee of the US's National Security Agency. Snowden had alleged that the US was running a monitoring station in its Kuala Lumpur embassy to tap telephones and monitor communication networks. 'US spying from KL embassy' 'US spying from KL embassy' Kuala Lumpur: The United States runs a monitoring station in its Kuala Lumpur embassy to tap telephones and monitor communications networks, according to top secret documents leaked by intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden.
A map originally published by Germany magazine Der Spiegel, and sighted by Australian dailies Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) and its Fairfax Media sister publication The Age, showed 90 electronic surveillance facilities worldwide, including in US embassies in Jakarta, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, and Yangon. Dated August 13, 2010, the map however did not show any such facilities in Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Britain, and Japan, which are the US' closest allies. Edward Snowden: From Russia with love. Edward Snowden: From Russia with love 9 November 2013 Edward Snowden’s resume is brief but compelling, even when propped up on a fake Edward Snowden Twitter account “I am responsible for leaking the existence of Prism and XKeyscore,” it says laconically.
“Formerly CIA, Booz Allen Hamilton. Ted Rall's Rallblog. Map: Australia uses network of spying outposts in Asia, plus XKeyscore facilities at home. Updated Mon 18 Nov 2013, 5:46pm AEDT The Edward Snowden leaks revealed a wide network of outposts set up to monitor Australia's northern neighbours, with information being shared between Australia and the United States.
Within Australia, veteran spy watcher Professor Des Ball says the National Security Agency receives intelligence from four key facilities in Australia that are part of the XKeyscore program. They include the jointly controlled Pine Gap base near Alice Springs, and the Australian Signals Directorate's intercept stations located outside Geraldton in Western Australia, at Shoal Bay near Darwin, and in a new centre at HMAS Harman Navy base in Canberra. Use our Google map to explore the network. Map: Australia's network of spying outposts Topics: security-intelligence, defence-and-national-security, foreign-affairs, australia, indonesia. Pinterest. EVERYTHING You Do Online Is Recorded In XKeyscore. How The NSA Datamines Everything You Do On the Internet: XKeyscore. The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its “widest-reaching” system for developing intelligence from the internet.
The latest revelations will add to the intense public and congressional debate around the extent of NSA surveillance programs. They come as senior intelligence officials testify to the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday, releasing classified documents in response to the Guardian’s earlier stories on bulk collection of phone records and Fisa surveillance court oversight. How The NSA Datamines Everything You Do On the Internet: XKeyscore. Top secret NSA program has links to NZ - Story - World. New Zealand is marked as one of the locations supporting a top secret program which allowing most online activity to be tracked using an email address, according to NSA documents.
The Guardian newspaper says the documents it has obtained show training material for the US security agency program called XKeyscore is its "widest reaching" system which allows analysts to search through vast online databases without prior authorisation. One of the slides in an NSA slideshow presentation entitled "Where is XKeyscore" has New Zealand, among a range of other countries including Australia, parts of Europe, China and parts of Africa marked in red.
Sweden's Intelligence Agency has Access to NSA's XKeyscore system. The information is disclosed in a new Swedish documentary produced by Uppdrag granskning of the Sveriges Television AB (SVT, the Swedish national broadcaster) after Frederik Laurin, Sven Bergman and Joachim Dyfvermark gained access to the database of Snowden-leaked documents.
They were looking for evidence of Swedish involvement in the NSA/GCHQ mass-surveillance operation. In Rio they met with Glen Greenwald and British journalist Ryan Gallagher, and were able to search for Swedish (but only Swedish) documents. And what they found would seem to confirm the epithet 'Sixth Eye' for Sweden. Sixth Eye: Sweden’s Intelligence Agency has Access to NSA’s XKeyscore system. Sweden has sometimes been called the ‘Sixth Eye’ – referring to the English-speaking Five Eyes SIGINT alliance – suggesting a close working relationship between Sweden’s FRA and the NSA and GCHQ.
New documents suggest that it has access to the XKeyscore tool, and has helped in the Quantum hacking program. The information is disclosed in a new Swedish documentary produced by Uppdrag granskning of the Sveriges Television AB (SVT, the Swedish national broadcaster) after Frederik Laurin, Sven Bergman and Joachim Dyfvermark gained access to the database of Snowden-leaked documents.
They were looking for evidence of Swedish involvement in the NSA/GCHQ mass-surveillance operation. In Rio they met with Glen Greenwald and British journalist Ryan Gallagher, and were able to search for Swedish (but only Swedish) documents. And what they found would seem to confirm the epithet ‘Sixth Eye‘ for Sweden. Schneier continued, ““Both Quantum and FoxAcid are NSA/GCHQ programmes to attack computer users. Explosive documentary about Sweden's role in NSA XKeyscore. Snowden Leak - NSA XKEYSCORE TOR - Slides in NSA. File:BND XKeyscore.jpg. Are the NSA programs PRISM and XKeyscore unconstitutional. The Incredible Power of XKeyscore. By Richard Stiennon Der Spiegel makes light of an incredible tidbit they extracted from a 50-page catalog of exploit technology apparently developed by the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations (TAO). The German newspaper describes, and dismisses as not very threatening the ability of an analyst using XKeyscore to identify a target’s machine, probably by IP address.
Then, if that machine ever files a crash report with Microsoft (or presumably any application such as Mozilla’s Firefox) the vast store of data that the NSA has collected is investigated with XKeyscore to recover a copy of that crash report --which was captured, along with everything else, by the NSA’s taps into most network traffic. Wait, what? Crash reports are not encrypted when sent to Microsoft or Mozilla? As if we needed it, here is yet another reminder that software developers can be woefully ignorant of the need for security.
But take a moment to contemplate the power of XKeyscore. Unencrypted Windows Error Reporting Crash Reports a Treasure. NSA's Google: XKeyscore search engine for all private info. First PRISM, Now XKeyscore, Cloud Surveillance is Wake-up Call for the Enterprise - CipherCloud. Extensive NSA Snooping Generates Cloud Data Protection Concerns SAN JOSE, Calif., August 1, 2013 On the heels of PRISM, the disclosure of XKeyscore has inflamed fears for moving data into the cloud. Together, the surveillance programs have generated broad concerns from privacy watchdogs about the sanctity of securing personal information and calls from EU regulators for limiting data to national boundaries and suspending the long accepted notion of safe harbor. This backlash is understandable. XKeyScore - NSA secret mass spying tool retrieves everything from the web.
The waves of controversy and outrage following former CIA and NSA technical officer Edward Snowden’s leaks of details that reveal the US and British governments had been secretly deploying mass surveillance programs on their citizens are far from over. Recently further details as to the extent and reach these programs possess have been uncovered, after a top secret National Security Agency program called XKeyScore was recently presented to the general public. “I, sitting at my desk,” said Snowden, could “wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email”.
This statement made a lot of people at Washington unhappy, and unsurprising Snowden’s claim was quickly refuted by officials. On another note, Snowden – a whistle-blower and hero by one side, and a dangerous traitor from another – is currently residing in Moscow, Russia, after fleeing the US via Hong Kong. XKeyscore PowerPoint presentation. XKeyscore PowerPoint presentation. Greenwald Blows Lid Off Massive NSA Web Surveillance Operation ‘XKeyscore’ Michael Hayden talks to CNN about XKEYSCORE program. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images Does the NSA really operate a vast database that allows its analysts to sift through millions of records showing nearly everything a user does on the Internet, as was recently reported? Yes, and people should stop worrying and learn to love it, according former NSA chief Gen.
Michael Hayden. XKeyscore allows U.S. intelligence to monitor ‘nearly everything’ users do online. By Agence France-PresseWednesday, July 31, 2013 15:16 EDT A secret surveillance system known as XKeyscore allows US intelligence to monitor “nearly everything a typical user does on the Internet,” according to leaked documents published on Wednesday. XKeyscore allows U.S. intelligence to monitor ‘nearly everything’ users do online. 'Every Stroke you Type': Greenwald Reveals Xkeyscore, Vindicating Snowden. When Edward Snowden went public, he alleged that as a low-level analyst, he could see you type your emails in real time: “I, sitting at my desk . . .” could . . . “wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email”.” Snowden was repeatedly called a liar by Washington DC insiders like Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) and Rep. 'Every Stroke you Type': Greenwald Reveals Xkeyscore, Vindicating Snowden.
NSA Surveillance Costing U.S. Businesses Billions: PRISM, Xkeyscore Hurt American Cloud Companies. Obama takes offensive on reforming NSA spying. US President Barack Obama covered plans to make the country's surveillance programs more transparent and also touched on recalibrating the United States' difficult relationship with Russia. It wasn't an easy outing for US President Barak Obama. Recently, he has almost seemed trapped by ongoing domestic and foreign policy conflicts. Shortly before leaving for his summer vacation, the president apparently wanted to go back on offense. For a White House press conference on Friday (09.08.2013), he chose two highly contentious topics of significant importance not only to the United States, but to Germany and other allies as well. Paradoxical Snowden situation One topic was the National Security Agency's (NSA) extensive surveillance programs, which are heatedly discussed in Europe and beginning to worry more and more Americans.
EXPLAINED: XKeyscore, The Scariest NSA Program Revealed By Edward Snowden So Far! EU to USA: WTF is PRISM? - Beekays Tech News. NSA's XKeyscore Explained. The NSA's top-secret slide deck on XKeyScore, its massive internet surveillance program. The latest revelations from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who is currently seeking political asylum in Russia, hit the Internet today, and they’re staggering. According to Snowden, the NSA has the capability to wiretap anyone, see real-time Internet browsing, monitor Facebook chat, and much more. Many of the revelations were backed up by a 2008 slide deck labeled “Top Secret” and only available to key individuals with high security clearances in the long-standing “five eyes” countries — USA, Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and New Zealand — which have long cooperated in matters of international intelligence.
The NSA's top-secret slide deck on XKeyScore, its massive internet surveillance program. » White noise: An idea to defend privat sphere against XKeyscore - Futuretechblog. One of Edward Snowdens most important leaks was about XKeyscore. A software which allows intelligence services to grab and analyse the whole internet traffic. NSA XKeyscore Produced by SAIC, Runs on RHEL. 1 August 2013. Add SAIC SKIDROWE job. NSA XKeyscore Produced by SAIC, Runs on RHEL. Building a panopticon: The evolution of the NSA’s XKeyscore. Building a panopticon: The evolution of the NSA’s XKeyscore. Presenting XKeyscore: What the N.S.A. Is Still Hiding. “Select a Foreigness Factor,” the text on a National Security Agency training slide for a system called XKeyscore, made public by the Guardian, in a piece by Glenn Greenwald, tells its analysts.
An arrow points to a drop-down menu with choices like “Foreign govt indicates that the person is located outside the U.S.” and “The person is a user of storage media seized outside the U.S.” Foreignness matters because the N.S.A. is not supposed to spy on Americans. NSA's 'XKeyscore' gives warrantless access to all Internet activity HD Italia.
EXPLAINED: XKeyscore, The Scariest NSA Program Revealed By Edward Snowden So Far! NSA Data Mining: How It Works. Most people were introduced to the arcane world of data mining when National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden allegedly leaked classified documents that detail how the U.S. government uses the technique to track terrorists. The security breach revealed that the government gathers billions of pieces of data—phone calls, emails, photos, and videos—from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and other communications giants, then combs through the information for leads on national security threats. NSA's Google XKeyscore search engine for all private info. NSA's 'XKeyscore' gives warrantless access to all Internet activity HD Italia.