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The BOUNDLESSINFORMANT interface
A previous article on this website showed that the charts in the NSA's BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool are not so easy to interpret as it may seem. Screenshots from this tool were published by a number of...
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14-Eyes are 3rd Party partners forming the SIGINT Seniors Europe
On December 11, the Swedish public television channel SVT published a range of new NSA-documents from the Snowden-collection. One is a text which for the first time proves that intelligence agencies of...
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The British classification marking STRAP
Most of the documents leaked by Edward Snowden are from the American signals intelligence agency NSA, but there are also quite a number from their British counterpart GCHQ. Documents from both...
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After providing lists of NSA-related codenames, abbreviations and SIGADs, we now publish a list of the designations of the numerous divisions and units of the NSA organization itself, which has an...
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Slides about NSA's Upstream collection
In July and September of last year, the Brazilian television magazine Fantástico broadcasted news reports about NSA operations, while in the background showing a series of slides from an unpublished...
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Did CSEC really track Canadian airport travellers?
(Updated: February 9, 2014)On January 30, the Canadian television channel CBC broke a story written by Greg Weston, Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher, saying that the Communications Security...
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New interpretations of NSA monitoring the German chancellor
One of the biggest scandals that arose from the Snowden-leaks, was the revelation in October 2013, that NSA was monitoring a mobile phone used by the current German chancellor Angela Merkel (although...
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BOUNDLESSINFORMANT: metadata collection by Dutch MIVD instead of NSA
(Updated: February 12, 2014)Today, the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad finally published the complete BOUNDLESSINFORMANT screenshot that shows data related to the Netherlands.This came after a...
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Dutch government tried to hide the truth about metadata collection
(Updated: February 19, 2014)On February 4, the Dutch government admitted that it was not NSA that collected 1,8 million metadata from phone calls of Dutch citizens, but actually their own military...
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NSA director Alexander's phones
After a range of articles about how NSA intercepts foreign communications, we now take a look at the equipment that NSA uses to secure their own telecommunications, more specific those of its...
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OLYMPIA: How Canada's CSEC maps phone and internet connections
On October 6, 2013, the Brazilian television program Fantástico revealed the existance of a software program called OLYMPIA. In this case, the program was used by the Communications Security...
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Video demonstration of two intelligence analysis tools
In a previous article we provided a very extensive description of a communications analysis tool used by the Canadian agency CSEC. Here we will show two video demonstrations of analysis tools which are...
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Some SIGINT and COMSEC during the Nuclear Security Summit
(Updated: March 25, 2014)On March 24 and 25, the third Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) is held in The Hague, the seat of the government of the Netherlands. As 58 world leaders will be present, including...
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What is known about NSA's PRISM program
(Updated: April 28, 2014)In June last year the Snowden-leaks started with the disclosure of the PRISM-program. For many people it stands for NSA surveillance in general because they often have still no...
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Pictures from inside the German intelligence agency BND
The German foreign intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is moving to a brand new headquarters in Berlin. Here we show some unique pictures from inside the former headquarters in the...
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Five Eyes, 9-Eyes and many more
(Updated: January 22, 2014)On November 2, The Guardian published a lenghty article about the Snowden-leaks, which said that besides the close intelligence-sharing group of the US, Britain, Canada,...
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NSA's largest cable tapping program: DANCINGOASIS
(Updated: May 26, 2014)On May 13, Glenn Greenwald published his book 'No Place To Hide' about the Snowden-disclosures. It doesn't contain substantial new revelations, but from one of the original...
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Some numbers about NSA's data collection
(Updated: June 9, 2014)Today it's exactly one year ago the Snowden-leaks started. Among the many highly classified documents which were disclosed during the past year are various charts that provide us...
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Snowden-documents show no evidence for global mass surveillance
(Updated: July 9, 2014)Earlier this month, it was the one year anniversary of the Snowden-leaks, by far the biggest disclosure ever of highly secret documents from the US National Security Agency...
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The National Security Agency in 2002
During the past year, a number of slides from a 2002 NSA presentation titled "National Security Agency: Overview Briefing" were disclosed as part of the Snowden-leaks.This presentation as a whole would...
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