This document is a presentation deck from the Fourth Party IPT branch of the TAO (Tailored Access Operations) division of the NSA. The presentation details the opportunities provided through "Fourth Party collection" which "leverages CCNE accesses to…
This document is an affidavit by the former director of the National Security Agency, General Keith B. Alexander created in adherence to subsection 702(g)(2)(C) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It describes the procedures enabling the…
This document is an internal NSA presentation. It describes the functions of the XKEYSCORE querying tool used by NSA analysts. This presentation focuses on retrieving data on targets through queries to their email addresses and user activity.
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 GCHQ's internal Wiki, GCWiki. It provides a list of the data sources used in the social media monitoring programs HAPPY TRIGGER, LOVELY HORSE, ZOOL and TWOFACE.
This document is a report from the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT big data analysis tool used by the NSA. It shows the NSA's efforts in monitoring telephonic and internet communications in Germany in a 30 day period between December 10 2012 and Janurary 8 2013.
This document appears to be an GCHQ analysis of "transit calls" of potential target: "This informal report has been issued to highlight a link of potential interest for tasking." Transit calls, likely tracking data/voice transmission through one…
This document is an extract from a report describing the joint DEA / NSA SANDKEY program. SANDKEY targets unencrypted voice communications of drug-traffickers at sea. This document displays the location and operational status of the program's FCC -…