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This document is a policy guideline for use by GCHQ. It details what elements of online communications can be classified as "Metadata" or "Content". It also provides a content schema for data classes.

This document is a NSA working aid for AURORAGOLD, a "team of SSG4 analysts, developers, and wireless SMEs" working on a database of Mobile Network Operators (MNO), target development, fusion of open source, licenses and commercial data within…

This brief announcement, from the internal NSA newsletter, advertises a position for an NSA analyst to write a monthly column as the "Socartes of SIGINT."

This document is an extract from a larger piece. It gives limited information, with little context, about the GCHQ program BLACK HOLE, in regards to bulk metadata collection, processing and analysis.

This NSA document describes the partnership between the BND and the NSA - through SUSLAG - in collaborating on data processing technology developement and anaylst training.

This document is an extract from internal NSA training material. It shows the user-interface of XKEYSCORE, the NSA's tool for retrieving surveillance data. It shows an example query on Sweden, and methods to assure compliance with USSID-18.

This document is an internal NSA presentation. It outlines how the XKEYSCORE data querying tool used by NSA analysts can also be used to target mobile and cellular digital network intelligence (DNI).

This document is a presentation overview into CSEC's analysis of TLS (Tranport Layer Security) traffic, in an effort to identify encryption capabilites, services, trends, and changes. Workflows show warranted collection and collection from a special…

This document is a release from the internal NSA newsletter, SIDtoday. It outlines the collaborative effort for tracking and collecting communications intelligence during the 2004 Athens Olympics, and names many of the NSA units involved.

This document is an internal memo created by the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate. It describes new procedures that permit analysts to perform "contact chaining", the analysis of American's networks of online associations for foreign…