"Ask Zelda!" : Watching Every Word in Snitch City
Associate Directorate for Corporate Leadership
This document is an article from SIDToday, an internal newsletter of the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate division. It is a part of the series titled "Ask Zelda", an advice column. This article responds to an enquiry into appropriate levels of workplace surveillance by NSA supervisors on their employees.
National Security Agency - Signals Intelligence Directorate
20140307-intercept-nsa_ask_zelda_watching_every_word_in_snitch_city.pdf
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"I hunt sys admins" NSA discussion forum posts
SSH - Secure Shell
This document contains posts from an internal NSA message board outlining methods for collecting data on unknown potential targets by way of infiltrating systems administrator accounts.
National Security Agency
20140320-intercept-targeting_system_administrator_accounts.pdf
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"ITCR Cloud Efforts" developing "canonical" SIGINT analytics, finding hard targets and exploratory data analysis at scale
BLOOD HOUND
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 exploratory data analysis of internet events.
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
20150925-intercept-cloud_developers_exchange_july_2011.pdf
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"Signal v Noise" Column: Do We Need a Bigger SIGINT Truck?
NSA - National Security Agency, Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID)
This docuument is a memo prepared by an official within the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate. It raises the possibility that SID's existing SIGINT storage capacities are suitable for the amount of data being retrieved across different SIGINT programs.
National Security Agency - Signals Intelligence Directorate
20150528-intercept-do_we_need_a_bigger_sigint_truck.pdf
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"Signal v. Noise" Column: Summit Fever
SIGINT - Signals Intelligence
This document is a memo prepared by an official within the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID) of the NSA. It describes analysts' temptations to succumb to "summit fever", the drive to invest more and more resources into an already failed exercise.
National Security Agency - Signals Intelligence Directorate
20150528-intercept-summit_fever.pdf
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2009 SIGDEV Conference
botnets
This document contains an internal NSA news release giving a summary of the 2009 SIGDEV conference, an "annual Five-Eyes event" which "enables unprecedented visibility of SIGINT Development activities from across the Extended Enterprise."
National Security Agency - SIGINT Development Strategy and Governance
20140404-intercept-2009_sigdev_conference.pdf
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2010/11 Investigative Challenges
DIGINT
This document is a report from GCHQ. It details the challenges facing the agency in managing its strategic communications intelligence requirements for 2010 and 2011
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
Digint-Imbalance.pdf
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2013 U.S. Intelligence Black Budget : Foreign Partner Access Project
OCO - Overseas Contingency Operations
This document is an extract from the 2013 "Black Budget", a budget covering expenses related to the Unites States Intelligence Community's covert operations and programs. This extract describes the Foreign Partner Access Program, comprised of the RAMPART-A and WINDSTOP surveillance programs.
United States Intelligence Community
20140618-dagbladet-black_budget.pdf
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2013 U.S. Intelligence Black Budget : Special Source Operations Project
OCO - Overseas Contingency Operations
This document is an excerpt from the United States Intelligence Community 2013 "Black Budget". This secret budget was used to describe covert programs. This extract describes the Special Source Operations (SSO) project, designed to assist the surveillance operations of foreign partners against targets in Kenya, the Caribbean, the Phillipines, and Mexico.
United States Intelligence Community
20140519-intercept-black_budget.pdf
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2nd SCAMP at CSEC process
IRASCIBLE HARE
This document is an extract of a presentation discussing the collaboration between CSE, NSA and GSHQ on various aspects of signals intelligence, including VPN exploitation, network intelligence, IP analysis, and IR21 processing.
National Security Agency - Network Tradecraft Advancement Team
20141204-intercept-nsa_gchq_csec_network_tradecraft_advancement.pdf
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