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This document is an extract from an NSA internal Wiki page explaining the activities undertaken within Special Source Operations to optimize collection from SSO sites. This process is described by the NSA as "collection optimization", and impacts a…

This document is a slide from a NSA Special Source Operations presentation on "Google Cloud Exploitation", a component of the MUSCULAR program, administered by GCHQ. MUSCULAR involves the interception of the data flows across the fibre optic cables…

This document is a presentation describing the NSA's STORMBREW program, an UPSTREAM collection program that intercepts internet communications as they pass through points in the US's fibre optic communications infrastructure. The slides are in a very…

This document is an extract from a weekly NSA Special Source Opertations briefing memo which describes protocol for the bulk collection, storage, and analysis of audio content and metadate under the SCALWAG program, a sub-program of MYSTIC.

This document is a presentation demonstrating the NSA's Special Source Operation's efforts to optimize their collection of Google's internal network traffic.

This document contains slides from a progress presentation on the MYSTIC audio surveillance program. Slides include one example of information collected on a specific target, as well as bar graphs displaying the weekly data reports collected for many…

This document is a presentaion slide prepared by NSA Special Source Operations, detailing the training and approval for PRISM access granted to 100 GCHQ users during the 2012 Olympics and the status of the collection as of 24 May 2012.

This document is a series of presentation slides created by the NSA's Special Source Operations. It describes the MUSCULAR program, a program administered by GCHQ that collects the internet "cloud" traffic of Yahoo and Google from an interception…

This document is an article from SSO News, the Internal Newsletter of the NSA's Special Source Operations. It describes a ruling made on 3 October 2011, where a judge from the FISA Court argued that Upstream collection were in violation of the fourth…

This document is a briefing describing the NSA's problems with overcollection of data from email address books and instant messaging buddy lists, as well as NSA efforts to filter out useless information. The briefing concludes with a case study of an…