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20150811-intercept-sigint-philosopher-in-praise-of-not-knowing.pdf
This articles, from the SIGINT philosopher series, published in the internal NSA newsletter, SIDtoday, discusses the analysts role in acknowledging the SIGINT information gaps. The article gives insight into the work of a SIGINT analyst.

20150811-intercept-sigint-philosopher-lessons-for-civil-servants.pdf
This article, from the internal NSA newsletter, SIDtoday, is one in a series written about ethics for NSA analysts. The author, likens intelligence analysis to the American Civil War, encouraging fellow analysts to trust the chain of command when…

20150811-intercept-are-you-the-sigint-philosopher.pdf
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."

20150811-intercept-when-brevity-is-just-the-soul-of-huh.pdf
This document is a column from the NSA newsletter, SIDtoday, written by the SIGINT philosopher. It dicusses workplace writtern correspondence etiquette.

20150508_intercept_skynet_applying_advanced_cloud_based_behavior.pdf
This document is an NSA powerpoint presentation from 2012. The presentation gives a description of the SKYNET metadata collection program: SKYNET "applies complex combintations of geospatial, geotemporal, pattern-of-life, and travel analytics to bulk…

20150811-intercept-descartes-would-have-been-a-lousy-sigint-reporter.pdf
This article, from the NSA internal newsletter, SIDToday, is a SIGINT analyst's reflection on the nature of their work filtering raw signals intelligence to the rest of the intelligence community, including its possible flaws and the margin of error…

20150811-intercept-the-sigint-philosopher-is-back-with-a-new-face.pdf
This document is a column from the NSA newsletter, SIDtoday, written by the "SIGINT philosopher." As part of a recurring column about surveillance ethics, the author dicusses the rationale for surveilling more rather then less in terms of diplomatic…

20150811-intercept-sigint-philosopher-unlike-all-my-terrible.pdf
This article, from the internal NSA newsletter, SIDtoday, is one in a series written by the "SIGINT philosopher." This article discusses the performance and peer review system among NSA analysts.

20150928-intercept-sid_trains_for_athens_olympics.pdf
This document is an article is from the internal NSA newsletter, SIDtoday. It announces the NSA preparations for the 2004 Athens Olympics, and briefly discusses intelligence operations of prior olympic games.

FOXACID-OVERALL-BRIEFING-Third-Revision-Redacted.pdf
This document is a 2007 NSA slide deck that gives an early overview of the development of the computer network exploitation server FOXACID.
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