NSA's Google XKeyscore search engine for all private info.
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. Man in the middle harassment. Or, where the XKEYSCORE prototype program began.
EXPLAINED: XKeyscore, The Scariest NSA Program Revealed By Edward Snowden So Far! 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. Last week, the Guardian published a series of leaked documents revealing new details about an NSA surveillance program called XKEYSCORE. » 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 analysts can see mostly everything of the whole Internet activity by grabbing data directly from important Internet nodes. E-Mails, search queries and private messages. Nothing is safe from NSA and its partners. In the last weeks many people were frightened about that issue as the data analysis works out of legal borders of consitutional law.
The good thing: People started fighting against this attack touching civil rights by encrypting their Mails, Messages, using Tor and informing about cryptographie techniques like PGP for example. But this is not enough: Many people are still not aware of the issues a surveillance society has or are not willing to defend themself against this kind of total control as it is sometimes still complicated and not easy enough to use cryptography and surf anonymously through the internet. NSA Surveillance Costing U.S. Businesses Billions: PRISM, Xkeyscore Hurt American Cloud Companies. Building a panopticon: The evolution of the NSA’s XKeyscore. The National Security Agency's (NSA) apparatus for spying on what passes over the Internet, phone lines, and airways has long been the stuff of legend, with the public catching only brief glimpses into its Leviathan nature.
Thanks to the documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, we now have a much bigger picture. When that picture is combined with federal contract data and other pieces of the public record—as well as information from other whistleblowers and investigators—it's possible to deduce a great deal about what the NSA has built and what it can do.
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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. Russia's and the US's foreign ministers Sergey Lavrov and John Kerry at their Washington meeting More surveillance control to win back trust. NSA's XKeyscore Explained. NSA XKeyscore Produced by SAIC, Runs on RHEL. 1 August 2013.
Add SAIC SKIDROWE job. NSA XKeyscore Produced by SAIC, Runs on RHEL Other SAIC Xkeyscore jobs: EU to USA: WTF is PRISM? - Beekays Tech News. Shockingly, the European Union may turn out to be ordinary Americans’ best friend.
While official reaction to the PRISM internet surveillance scandal in the U.S. has been muted at best, the European Union is up in arms over the NSA’s access to data from Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, and other companies. Now, the EU’s justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, has written a letter to the US attorney general asking some very pointed questions about PRISM and other U.S. civilian spying programs.
After all, if the NSA were — shockingly — telling the truth that its surveillance is mostly targeted at foreign nationals, European citizens are right in the crosshairs. And Europe has some of the strongest data protection laws in the world. Those questions include: Are they (PRISM and any other surveillance programs) only aimed at gathering the data of US citizens and residents, or are they also – or even primarily – targeting non-US nationals, including EU citizens? NSA's XKeyscore gives one-click real-time access to almost any internet activity.
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.
Citing classified documents provided by fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, British daily the Guardian said the program was the most wide-reaching operated by the National Security Agency. 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.
Greenwald Blows Lid Off Massive NSA Web Surveillance Operation ‘XKeyscore’ Greenwald Blows Lid Off Massive NSA Web Surveillance Operation ‘XKeyscore’
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. 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. Peter King (R-NY), who denied that Americans’ emails are being collected or examined by the NSA.
XKeyscore PowerPoint presentation. 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. The one selected for the sample search might be the easiest: “In direct contact w/tgt overseas, no info to show proposed tgt in U.S.” In other words, We found a link between you and someone abroad we’re interested in, and you haven’t shown us that you’re American—so let’s take a look.