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Recommended Requirements for Cryptanalysts at CCs at Texas, Georgia and Hawaii to Access NSA and FBI FISA Material
This document is an NSA staff processing form addressed to the SIGINT Director of the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID). It requests SID approval for the Cryptanalis and Exploitation Division (CES) at the Cryptologic Centers (CCs) in…
SSO Acquisition Optimization
This document is a presentation describing the NSA's attempts at collection optimization, primarily through use of the SCISSORS system to "block" email address books and other useless that are unattributable to particular individuals.
DEFIANTWARRIOR and the NSA's Use of Bots
This document is a presentation deck giving an overview of the NSA's techniques for detecting bots and using bots in their CNE operations. The document discusses the main uses for bots and bot herding, how they can be used in SIGINT, future hopes and…
C1-030-05 Close Out for "Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers without Courts" - Action Memorandum
This document is a piece of correspondence written by an official within the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate and addressed to Ariane Cerlenko of the NSA's Office of General Counsel. It is a response on the accuracy of claims made about NSA…
Procedures for the Dissemination by NSA to Foreign Governments of Information from FISA Electronic Surveillance or Physical Search Conducted by the FBI
This document is a memo originating from the office of the Attorney General of the United States. It describes the policies and procedures for disseminating mimimized intelligence information on U.S. citizens to foreign intelligence agencies,…
Computer-Network Exploitation Successes South of the Border
This document is a memo authored by the Chief of the NSA's Texas TAO, Requirements and Targeting office, designated FTS327. This document describes operation FLATLIQUID, a TAO program that exploited key weaknesses in Mexican President Felipe…
PullThrough Steering Group Meeting #16
This document is meeting notes from the GCHQ PullThrough Steering Group Meeting #16. Brief descriptions and status updates are given for various bulk collection programs, such as KARMA POLICE, ORB Finder, LIGHTWOOD, SALTY OTTER and MOOSE MILK.
XKEYSCORE, Cipher Detection, and You!
This document is an internal presentation prepared by the NSA's Mathematics Research Group (MRG). It outlines the structure, features and examples of use of the XKEYSCORE data analysis tool. The presentation also describes the relations of XKEYSCORE…
Key SSO Cyber Milstone Dates ; New FAA702 Certification in the Works ; CNO Legal Authorities ; Cyberspace Policy Review
This item is a collection of documents released by The New York Times. They cover a wide range of surveillance activities within the NSA. It includes: Extracts from a slide presentation detailing major developments in the Special Source Operations…
Types of IAT - Advanced Open Source Multi-Hop
This document is a presentation describing forms of Open Source Multi-Hop Networks. The most famous of these is TOR, The Onion Router, a service designed to protect online anonymity partially funded by the US due to its use by dissents in repressive…