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This document is a classification guide for NSA Signals Intelligence material collected between 1945 and 1967. It also includes a glossary defining key terms used in U.S. intelligence material.

This document discusses the types of lawful intercept used by the NSA, including access through special source operations. Lawful Intercept is defined as Èobtaining communications network data by legal authority for analysis or evidence.È A long list…

This document is an internal NSA presentation. It describes using the NSA's XKEYSCORE data analysis tool to create "Fingerprints", improving the utility to searching repositories of intelligence information.

This document is a slide from an internal NSA presentation. The slide describes the appropriate target minimization procedures to be adopted by NSA analysts, such as the importance of not recieving the "substantive content" of communciations in the…

This document is an internal GCHQ presentation. It document's the agency's efforts in utilizing cloud analytics to drive Signals Intelligence "canonical operations", to facilitate target discover at the "population scale" and to supprot the…

This document is a presentation describing the mission statement BOUNDLESSINFORMANT, the NSA's tool used to track and visualize global surveillance data. This document is an expanded version of that released by the Guardian.

This document contains extracts from an NSA presentation reporting on the future of the FOXACID program, discussing new programs for computer network exploitation. Programs such as SECONDDATE and WILLOWVIXEN allow for mass exploitation through…

This document contains a slide from the NSA Technology Directorate discussing the benefits of converged data analysis. The slide outlines how NSA Signals and Target analysts recieve data without knowing the circumstances of collection.

This document is a guide for analysts on how to use PRISM Skype collection. It gives a background of the program which began Feb 2011 and now collects a "mixture of audio, video, chat, and file transfers." The bulk of the document answers frequently…

This document contains internal NSA training material, explaining in detail the separation between the role the technician as it relates to the NSA's Business Records (BR) and Pen Register Trap and Trace (PR/TT) Bulk Metadata Programs.