MUSCULAR : Current Efforts - Google

Title

MUSCULAR : Current Efforts - Google

Subject

SSO Optimization

Description

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 that carry information among the data centers of major tech companies, including Google and Yahoo. A sketch shows where the "Public Internet" meets the internal "Google Cloud" where user data reside.

Creator

National Security Agency - Special Source Operations

Publisher

The Washington Post

Relation

Snowden

Language

en

Date:Created

2013-02-28

Source:Classification

SI

Source:Redactions

None

Report:Creator

Ashkan Soltani

NumPages

1

CreatorOffice

NSA

Date:Leaked

2013-10-30

Distribution

NOFORN

Surveillance Programs

MUSCULAR; INCENSER; TURMOIL; WINDSTOP

Collection

Citation

National Security Agency - Special Source Operations, “MUSCULAR : Current Efforts - Google,” Snowden Archive, accessed March 29, 2024, https://grid.glendon.yorku.ca/items/show/170.

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