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NSA still uses the UMBRA compartment for highly sensitive intercepts
Three days ago, on July 5, 2014, The Washington Post published some of the most important stories from the Snowden-leaks so far. It revealed that Snowden did had access to the content of data collected...
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Document shows that it was not NSA, but FBI that monitored 5 Americans
Three days ago, on July 9, 2014, Glenn Greenwald published an article which he earlier announced as being the grand finale of the Snowden-revelations. It would demonstrate that NSA is also spying on...
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New phones aboard Air Force One
The location that best represents Top Level Telecommunications in every sense of the word is probably Air Force One, the aircraft that carries the president of the United States.As unbelievable as it...
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This time we present an article written in cooperation with the French weblog about intelligence and defence Zone d'Intérêt in which we compare the data collection of Google to intelligence agencies...
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Another "red phone" for the Israeli prime minister
In an earlier posting on this weblog we took a look at the phones used by the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which included an eye-catching red one. In some more recent pictures we can see...
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NSA's Foreign Partnerships
For fulfilling its task of gathering foreign signals intelligence, the National Security Agency (NSA) is cooperating with partner agencies from over 35 countries all over the world.These relationships...
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About STELLARWIND and other mysterious classification markings
(Updated: September 15, 2014)Last week, on September 6, the US Justice Department released a declassified version of a 2004 memorandum about the STELLARWIND program.The memorandum (pdf) is about the...
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BOUNDLESSINFORMANT: metadata collection by Dutch MIVD instead of NSA
(Updated: March 15, 2014)Today, the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad finally published the complete BOUNDLESSINFORMANT screenshot that shows data related to the Netherlands.This came after a surprising...
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NSA's Strategic Mission List
One of the most important documents that has been disclosed as part of the Snowden-leaks is also one of the least-known: the Strategic Mission List from January 2007, which provides a detailed list of...
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The German operation Eikonal as part of NSA's RAMPART-A program
Just over a week ago, the regional German paper Süddeutsche Zeitung and the regional broadcasters NDR and WDR came with a story saying that between 2004 and 2008, the German foreign intelligence...
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The phones of the Dutch Prime Minister
(Updated: November 7, 2014)With last year's news of NSA eavesdropping on the mobile phone of German chancellor Angela Merkel in mind, Dutch onlinemedia assumed it was big news that the Dutch prime...
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German investigation of the cooperation between NSA and BND (I)
(Updated: November 28, 2014)In Germany, a parliamentary commission is currently investigating the relationship between the National Security Agency (NSA) and the German foreign intelligence service...
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INCENSER, or how NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables
(Last edited: November 30, 2014)Recently disclosed documents show that the NSA's fourth-largest cable tapping program, codenamed INCENSER, pulls its data from just one single source: a submarine fiber...
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Update on tapping German chancellor Merkel's phone
Over the last days, there were some new developments regarding the eavesdropping on the mobile phone of the German chancellor Angela Merkel, which was revealed in October last year. It was clarified...
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German investigation of the cooperation between NSA and BND (II)
This is the second report about the German parliamentary committee which investigates NSA spying activities and the cooperation between NSA and the German foreign intelligence service BND. Here we...
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German investigation of the cooperation between NSA and BND (III)
(Updated: January 16, 2015)This is part III about the German parliamentary committee which investigates NSA spying activities and the cooperation between NSA and the German foreign intelligence service...
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How GCHQ prepares for interception of phone calls from satellite links
Most of the Snowden-revelations are about spying on the internet, but NSA and GCHQ are also conducting the more traditional collection of telephone communications that go through satellite links.What...
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Pictures from inside the German intelligence agency BND
(Updated: June 12, 2014) The German foreign intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is moving to a brand new headquarters in Berlin. Here we show some unique pictures from inside the former...
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Snowden would not have been able to legally "wiretap anyone"
(UPDATED February 19, 2015)During his very first interview, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden pretended that he, sitting behind his desk "certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you,...
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NSA and GCHQ stealing SIM card keys: a few things you should know
(Updated: February 27, 2015)Last Thursday, February 19, the website The Intercept broke a big story about how NSA and GCHQ hacked the security company Gemalto in order to acquire large numbers of keys...
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