(Updated: June 29, 2019)
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 unopen hold off at a unique photograph of NSA reckoner equipment revealed the names of 5 countries: Tunisia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany in addition to Italy. The devices are routers, merely it's non sure enough what just they used for. The circumstances signal that they enable the central of information for armed services operations inwards which these NSA partner countries participate.
Presentation virtually Strategic Analystics at the
NSA's European Cryptologic Center (ECC)
(Click for the amount presentation inwards pdf)
On June 14, 2014, the High German journal Der Spiegel published 53 documents pertaining to the NSA's operations inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany in addition to its cooperation amongst High German agencies. Many of them got niggling attention, in addition to so they frequently comprise interesting things which are non all the same reported.
One of these documents is an undated presentation virtually Strategic Analystics used at the NSA's European Cryptologic Center (ECC), which is located close the metropolis of Darmstadt inwards Germany. This presentation contains some unique photos of what seems to live on NSA equipment.
Cisco routers
One of the photo's shows a 19-inch rack for reckoner equipment modules, which contains xiii mutual Cisco 2811 routers. In the photograph nosotros encounter the front end panels of the routers, amongst each 1 having a dark ability cable in addition to a ruddy network cable, which connects to a reckoner inwards guild to contend the router. The cables for the actual information are on the bring upwardly side, where the device has 4 high-speed WAN interface carte du jour (HWIC) slots, 2 10/100 Gigabit Ethernet ports, in addition to a slot for an Enhanced Network Module (ENM).
Slide from the presentation virtually Strategic Analystics
at the NSA's European Cryptologic Center (ECC)
(Click to enlarge)
Classification labels
Twelve routers bring an orangish in addition to a xanthous label, alone the bottom 1 has a ruddy label. These labels signal the (highest) classification degree of the information that are handled past times the equipment. The ruddy label is for Secret, the Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), which agency the information is inwards a "control system" amongst extra protective measures.
All merely 1 of the routers may so transfer information upwardly to the degree of Top Secret/SCI. This sounds quite impressive, merely genuinely almost everything NSA does is classified at this level, to a greater extent than specifically equally Top Secret//Comint (or SI for Special Intelligence) - the mark that tin flame live on seen on almost all Snowden documents.
Sometimes, the photos inwards the presentation are related to what the slide is about, merely hither that seems non to live on the case. The slide is virtually MapReduce analytics, amongst MapReduce existence a exceptional method to filter, sort in addition to generate information from really large databases. This is completely dissimilar from what routers do, which is transferring information from 1 reckoner network to another.
Photo of the equipment rack amongst xiii Cisco routers
(Click to enlarge)
The white labels
Most interesting inwards this photograph is the text on the white labels, which unfortunately is really hard to read. But afterward I brought these photos nether attention, a twitter-user noticed that these labels contained novel codewords in addition to names of countries. Eventually the next words could live on read, amongst inwards grayness those that are uncertain:
BAYBRIDGE
TUNISIA
PARTSTREAMER
NETHERLANDS
BAYBRIDGE
SEENFLARE
BAYBRIDGE
BELGIUM
BAYBRIDGE
SIDELIGHT
BAYBRIDGE
MALFRACK
BAYBRIDGE
THAWFACTOR TR82/...
... EXPANSION
GERMANY ...
CRO......
MEVE/ORION ..MG/..EF
BAYBRIDGE
...... ..../....
BAYBRIDGE
FAIRLANE
BAYBRIDGE
ITALY ....
........
....... ....
Most of the routers are labeled BAYBRIDGE, either accompanied past times some other codeword or past times the call of a country: Tunisia, Kingdom of Belgium in addition to in all probability Italy. Kingdom of the Netherlands in addition to Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany are mentioned on routers which look to live on related to other systems, which for the Netherlands is codenamed PARTSTREAMER. Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany is related to some sort of EXPANSION.
All these codewords are seen hither for the get-go time, so it's non known what they correspond in addition to the variations larn far fifty-fifty to a greater extent than hard to gauge what these routers are genuinely used for. Maybe some hereafter disclosures of NSA documents tin flame render an explanation.
Update:
On August 15, 2018, The Intercept published a batch of internal SIDtoday newsletters, including 1 from Apr 12, 2006 which reveals that BAYBRIDGE is a circuit for the central of metadata in addition to analytic information from in addition to to the NSA's unusual partner agencies.
Close-up of the white labels for the routers labeled
BAYBRIDGE TUNISIA in addition to PARTSTREAMER NETHERLANDS
Third Party partners
One affair that these 5 countries bring inwards common, is the fact that they are 3rd Party partners of NSA. This agency there's a unopen cooperation based upon a formal understanding betwixt NSA in addition to the agency responsible for signals intelligence inwards a given country.
Belgium, The Netherlands, Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany in addition to Italy are long-time trusted allies of the US, merely Tunisia alone came to a greater extent than unopen to the U.S. afterward 9/11. It for illustration supported the state of war on terrorism, conducted articulation grooming exercises amongst the US, in addition to U.S. Navy ships regularly visited the ports of Bizerte, Sfax, Sousse in addition to Tunis.*
Initially, Tunisia in addition to then cruel nether responsibleness of the announced that a novel Joint Intelligence Analysis Centre volition live on established at RAF Croughton, a U.S. Air Force base of operations close Milton Keynes, which already processes virtually a 3rd of U.S. armed services communications inwards Europe. The novel centre volition live on the U.S. headquarters for European in addition to African armed services communications, employing upwardly to 1250 staff analysing intelligence from to a greater extent than than 50 countries. It is due to live on completed inwards 2017.
Military operations
According to NSA historian Matthew Aid, NSA's European optic already supported American troops operating inwards Bosnia in addition to Kosovo inwards the slow 1990s. There were straight communication links non alone amongst U.S. armed services units, merely likewise amongst all the SIGINT agencies in addition to units of the partner nations operating inwards the Balkan, similar Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, in addition to others.
In a similar way the routers nosotros encounter inwards the photograph from the presentation could in addition to then live on used for the central or transfer of information related to specific armed services in addition to counter-terrorism operations, each involving dissimilar countries. For now, this seems the most probable option, equally it could likewise explicate the variations of the codewords.
This seems to live on dissimilar from SIGDASYS, which is a database arrangement where NSA in addition to some partner agencies tin flame seat inwards in addition to push clit out armed services intelligence information on a to a greater extent than regular basis. Also, SIGDASYS is exercise of the SIGINT Seniors Europe (SSEUR or xiv Eyes) group, which doesn't include Tunisia.
Links in addition to sources
- Matthew Aid: The European Cryptologic Center at Darmstadt, Germany (2013)
- Presentation virtually the US Army Intelligence in addition to Security Command (INSCOM) (pdf, 2013)
- NIST: Cisco 2811 in addition to Cisco 2821 Integrated Services Router FIPS 140-2 Non Proprietary Security Policy (pdf, 2005)
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