(Updated: Jan 23, 2017)
The solar daytime before yesterday, the French paper Le Monde broke amongst a U.S. intercepts French telephone calls on a 'massive scale'.
But this is incorrect. According to a presentation together with a FAQ document, the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool is for showing the collection capabilities of NSA's Global Access Operations (GAO) division, which is responsible for intercepts from satellites together with other international SIGINT platforms.
The programme presents this information through counting together with analysing all DNI (internet) together with DNR (telephony) metadata records passing through the NSA SIGINT systems.
This means, all figures shown inward the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT screenshots are almost metadata together with not almost content. It is unclear how many telephone calls are represented past times the numbers of metadata records, but it's likely much less.
So for France, nosotros alone know certainly that NSA collected 70,3 ane grand k metadata records together with non how many telephone calls were genuinely intercepted inward the feel of recording the telephone telephone contents.
It should also survive noted that BOUNDLESSINFORMANT is evidently alone showing metadata collected past times the GAO division. Therefore, information gathered past times NSA's other principal Signals Intelligence divisions, SSO (for collection from commercial companies) together with TAO (for collection past times hacking networks together with computers), may non survive included inward the charts together with the oestrus maps.
UPDATE #1:
On Oct 29, 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that according to U.S. of A. of America officials, the metadata records for French Republic together with Kingdom of Spain were non collected past times the NSA, but past times French together with Castilian intelligence services. The metadata were gathered exterior their borders, similar inward state of war zones, together with so shared amongst NSA. This confirms the explanation of the numbers of German linguistic communication metadata, given past times story proverb that NSA is intercepting French telephone communications on a massive scale. This is mainly based upon a graph from the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT program, which shows that during ane month, 70,3 ane grand k telephone information of French citizens were recorded past times the NSA.
Here, it volition survive clarified that the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool alone shows numbers of metadata. Also some screenshots volition survive analysed, showing information almost collection related to:
Metadata
As the Le Monde article, written past times Jacques Follorou together with Glenn Greenwald, failed to clarify the exact nature of the 70,3 million, it was unclear whether this issue was almost metadata or also almost the content of telephone calls. Combined amongst some sensationalism, this led to headlines similar U.S. intercepts French telephone calls on a 'massive scale'.
But this is incorrect. According to a presentation together with a FAQ document, the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool is for showing the collection capabilities of NSA's Global Access Operations (GAO) division, which is responsible for intercepts from satellites together with other international SIGINT platforms.
The programme presents this information through counting together with analysing all DNI (internet) together with DNR (telephony) metadata records passing through the NSA SIGINT systems.
This means, all figures shown inward the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT screenshots are almost metadata together with not almost content. It is unclear how many telephone calls are represented past times the numbers of metadata records, but it's likely much less.
So for France, nosotros alone know certainly that NSA collected 70,3 ane grand k metadata records together with non how many telephone calls were genuinely intercepted inward the feel of recording the telephone telephone contents.
It should also survive noted that BOUNDLESSINFORMANT is evidently alone showing metadata collected past times the GAO division. Therefore, information gathered past times NSA's other principal Signals Intelligence divisions, SSO (for collection from commercial companies) together with TAO (for collection past times hacking networks together with computers), may non survive included inward the charts together with the oestrus maps.
UPDATE #1:
On Oct 29, 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that according to U.S. of A. of America officials, the metadata records for French Republic together with Kingdom of Spain were non collected past times the NSA, but past times French together with Castilian intelligence services. The metadata were gathered exterior their borders, similar inward state of war zones, together with so shared amongst NSA. This confirms the explanation of the numbers of German linguistic communication metadata, given past times Der Spiegel on August 5.
UPDATE #2:
On Oct 30, 2013, Glenn Greenwald published a U.S. intercepts French telephone calls on a 'massive scale'.
But this is incorrect. According to a presentation together with a FAQ document, the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool is for showing the collection capabilities of NSA's Global Access Operations (GAO) division, which is responsible for intercepts from satellites together with other international SIGINT platforms.
The programme presents this information through counting together with analysing all DNI (internet) together with DNR (telephony) metadata records passing through the NSA SIGINT systems.
This means, all figures shown inward the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT screenshots are almost metadata together with not almost content. It is unclear how many telephone calls are represented past times the numbers of metadata records, but it's likely much less.
So for France, nosotros alone know certainly that NSA collected 70,3 ane grand k metadata records together with non how many telephone calls were genuinely intercepted inward the feel of recording the telephone telephone contents.
It should also survive noted that BOUNDLESSINFORMANT is evidently alone showing metadata collected past times the GAO division. Therefore, information gathered past times NSA's other principal Signals Intelligence divisions, SSO (for collection from commercial companies) together with TAO (for collection past times hacking networks together with computers), may non survive included inward the charts together with the oestrus maps.
UPDATE #1:
On Oct 29, 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that according to U.S. of A. of America officials, the metadata records for French Republic together with Kingdom of Spain were non collected past times the NSA, but past times French together with Castilian intelligence services. The metadata were gathered exterior their borders, similar inward state of war zones, together with so shared amongst NSA. This confirms the explanation of the numbers of German linguistic communication metadata, given past times statement claiming that his master copy reports, proverb that NSA massively collected information inward unusual countries, are yet correct.
UPDATE #3:
On Feb 5, 2014, the Dutch interior government minister U.S. intercepts French telephone calls on a 'massive scale'.
But this is incorrect. According to a presentation together with a FAQ document, the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool is for showing the collection capabilities of NSA's Global Access Operations (GAO) division, which is responsible for intercepts from satellites together with other international SIGINT platforms.
The programme presents this information through counting together with analysing all DNI (internet) together with DNR (telephony) metadata records passing through the NSA SIGINT systems.
This means, all figures shown inward the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT screenshots are almost metadata together with not almost content. It is unclear how many telephone calls are represented past times the numbers of metadata records, but it's likely much less.
So for France, nosotros alone know certainly that NSA collected 70,3 ane grand k metadata records together with non how many telephone calls were genuinely intercepted inward the feel of recording the telephone telephone contents.
It should also survive noted that BOUNDLESSINFORMANT is evidently alone showing metadata collected past times the GAO division. Therefore, information gathered past times NSA's other principal Signals Intelligence divisions, SSO (for collection from commercial companies) together with TAO (for collection past times hacking networks together with computers), may non survive included inward the charts together with the oestrus maps.
UPDATE #1:
On Oct 29, 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that according to U.S. of A. of America officials, the metadata records for French Republic together with Kingdom of Spain were non collected past times the NSA, but past times French together with Castilian intelligence services. The metadata were gathered exterior their borders, similar inward state of war zones, together with so shared amongst NSA. This confirms the explanation of the numbers of German linguistic communication metadata, given past times revised his before contestation from Oct past times declaring that the 1.8 ane grand k "Dutch" metadata are genuinely collected from unusual sources past times the Dutch military machine intelligence service MIVD inward social club to back upwards military machine operations abroad.
CONCLUSION:
This way that the initial interpretation of the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT charts showing that NSA intercepted telephone calls of European citizens is non correct. Instead they demo metadata which were collected past times European intelligence agencies for military machine purposes together with afterwards shared amongst partner agencies similar NSA.
France
Below is a screenshot from BOUNDLESSINFORMANT that shows information almost collection from French Republic betwixt Dec 10, 2012 together with Jan 8, 2013. In total, almost 70,3 ane grand k metadata records were collected:
The bar nautical chart inward the summit role shows the numbers past times date, amongst DNR (telephony) inward dark-green together with DNI (internet) inward blue. In this representative alone telephony metadata were collected, so nosotros alone encounter dark-green bars.
In the lower role of the screenshot nosotros encounter 3 sections amongst break-ups for "Signal Profile", "Most Volume" together with "Top five Techs".
Signal Profile
The Signal Profile department shows a pie nautical chart which tin demo the next types of communication:
- PCS: Personal Communications Service (mobile telephone networks)
- INMAR: INMARSAT (satellite communications network)
- MOIP: Mobile communications over IP
- VSAT: Very Small Aperture Terminal
- HPCP: High Power Cordless Phone
- PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network
- DNI: Digital Network Intelligence (internet data)
In this case, the bulk of the signals are from PCS or cellular telephone networks (dark blue) together with a tike fraction from the Public Switched Telephone Network (dark yellow).
Most Volume
This department shows that all French metadata during the ane calendar month current were collected past times a facility designated US-985D. This SIGAD is seen hither for the start fourth dimension together with also Le Monde has no farther information, except for the proposition that it's from a hit of numbers corresponding to the NSA's 3rd political party partners.
As the French metadata are all collected from mobile together with traditional telephone networks, they may receive got been intercepted amongst the assist of a (foreign or fifty-fifty French) telecommunication provider. In that case, it's possible that the metadata are from French telephone numbers which are used past times unusual targets (see Deutschland below).
Top five Techs
The techniques used for these interceptions appear nether the codenames DRTBOX together with WHITEBOX, which are disclosed hither for the start time. Le Monde wasn't able to furnish whatsoever to a greater extent than details almost these programs or systems, but if nosotros compare the numbers collected past times these programs amongst the pie nautical chart nether Signal Profile, it seems probable that DRTBOX (which collected 89% of the data) accounts for the big PCS role of the pie chart, together with WHITEBOX (11%) for the minor PSTN part.
The Netherlands
Almost immediatly after Le Monde came amongst their storey on Oct 20, 2013, the Dutch information technology website Tweakers.net noticed that the German linguistic communication periodical Der Spiegel had published a similar screenshot almost collection from the Netherlands early on August:
In this representative nosotros alone receive got the summit part, amongst a bar nautical chart showing that during a ane calendar month period, almost 1,8 ane grand k telephony metadata records were collected from the Netherlands.
Again, this issue is alone almost metadata, together with thus it doesn't tell us how many telephone calls, allow solitary how many telephone numbers were maybe involved.
The study past times Tweakers.net was right inward explaining that the nautical chart alone shows metadata, but unfortunately, the headline initially said "NSA intercepted 1.8 ane grand k phonecalls inward the Netherlands". This gave many people, including politicians, the thought that NSA was genuinely eavesdropping on a vast issue of Dutch telephone calls, which is non what the nautical chart says, together with which is also likely non what NSA is doing.
UPDATE:
On Feb 5, 2014, the Dutch interior government minister together with the defence government minister came out amongst an official U.S. intercepts French telephone calls on a 'massive scale'.
But this is incorrect. According to a presentation together with a FAQ document, the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool is for showing the collection capabilities of NSA's Global Access Operations (GAO) division, which is responsible for intercepts from satellites together with other international SIGINT platforms.
The programme presents this information through counting together with analysing all DNI (internet) together with DNR (telephony) metadata records passing through the NSA SIGINT systems.
This means, all figures shown inward the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT screenshots are almost metadata together with not almost content. It is unclear how many telephone calls are represented past times the numbers of metadata records, but it's likely much less.
So for France, nosotros alone know certainly that NSA collected 70,3 ane grand k metadata records together with non how many telephone calls were genuinely intercepted inward the feel of recording the telephone telephone contents.
It should also survive noted that BOUNDLESSINFORMANT is evidently alone showing metadata collected past times the GAO division. Therefore, information gathered past times NSA's other principal Signals Intelligence divisions, SSO (for collection from commercial companies) together with TAO (for collection past times hacking networks together with computers), may non survive included inward the charts together with the oestrus maps.
UPDATE #1:
On Oct 29, 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that according to U.S. of A. of America officials, the metadata records for French Republic together with Kingdom of Spain were non collected past times the NSA, but past times French together with Castilian intelligence services. The metadata were gathered exterior their borders, similar inward state of war zones, together with so shared amongst NSA. This confirms the explanation of the numbers of German linguistic communication metadata, given past times statement proverb that the 1.8 ane grand k metadata, equally shown inward the aforementioned screenshot, are genuinely collected from unusual sources past times the Dutch military machine intelligence service MIVD inward social club to back upwards military machine operations abroad. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few days later, NRC Handelsblad also published the consummate BOUNDLESSINFORMANT chart, including the lower sections.
> Latest details almost the chart: U.S. intercepts French telephone calls on a 'massive scale'.
But this is incorrect. According to a presentation together with a FAQ document, the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool is for showing the collection capabilities of NSA's Global Access Operations (GAO) division, which is responsible for intercepts from satellites together with other international SIGINT platforms.
The programme presents this information through counting together with analysing all DNI (internet) together with DNR (telephony) metadata records passing through the NSA SIGINT systems.
This means, all figures shown inward the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT screenshots are almost metadata together with not almost content. It is unclear how many telephone calls are represented past times the numbers of metadata records, but it's likely much less.
So for France, nosotros alone know certainly that NSA collected 70,3 ane grand k metadata records together with non how many telephone calls were genuinely intercepted inward the feel of recording the telephone telephone contents.
It should also survive noted that BOUNDLESSINFORMANT is evidently alone showing metadata collected past times the GAO division. Therefore, information gathered past times NSA's other principal Signals Intelligence divisions, SSO (for collection from commercial companies) together with TAO (for collection past times hacking networks together with computers), may non survive included inward the charts together with the oestrus maps.
UPDATE #1:
On Oct 29, 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that according to U.S. of A. of America officials, the metadata records for French Republic together with Kingdom of Spain were non collected past times the NSA, but past times French together with Castilian intelligence services. The metadata were gathered exterior their borders, similar inward state of war zones, together with so shared amongst NSA. This confirms the explanation of the numbers of German linguistic communication metadata, given past times BOUNDLESSINFORMANT: metadata collection past times Dutch MIVD instead of NSA
> The whole story: U.S. intercepts French telephone calls on a 'massive scale'.
But this is incorrect. According to a presentation together with a FAQ document, the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool is for showing the collection capabilities of NSA's Global Access Operations (GAO) division, which is responsible for intercepts from satellites together with other international SIGINT platforms.
The programme presents this information through counting together with analysing all DNI (internet) together with DNR (telephony) metadata records passing through the NSA SIGINT systems.
This means, all figures shown inward the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT screenshots are almost metadata together with not almost content. It is unclear how many telephone calls are represented past times the numbers of metadata records, but it's likely much less.
So for France, nosotros alone know certainly that NSA collected 70,3 ane grand k metadata records together with non how many telephone calls were genuinely intercepted inward the feel of recording the telephone telephone contents.
It should also survive noted that BOUNDLESSINFORMANT is evidently alone showing metadata collected past times the GAO division. Therefore, information gathered past times NSA's other principal Signals Intelligence divisions, SSO (for collection from commercial companies) together with TAO (for collection past times hacking networks together with computers), may non survive included inward the charts together with the oestrus maps.
UPDATE #1:
On Oct 29, 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that according to U.S. of A. of America officials, the metadata records for French Republic together with Kingdom of Spain were non collected past times the NSA, but past times French together with Castilian intelligence services. The metadata were gathered exterior their borders, similar inward state of war zones, together with so shared amongst NSA. This confirms the explanation of the numbers of German linguistic communication metadata, given past times Dutch regime tried to cover the truth almost metadata collection
Germany
On July 29, the German linguistic communication periodical Der Spiegel published a screenshot from BOUNDLESSINFORMANT which shows information almost collection from Deutschland betwixt Dec 10, 2012 together with Jan 8, 2013. In total, to a greater extent than than 552 ane grand k metadata records were collected:
The bar nautical chart inward the summit role shows the numbers past times date, amongst DNR (telephony) inward dark-green together with DNI (internet) inward blue.
Signal Profile
In representative of Germany, the pie nautical chart shows that the communication systems are roughly divided into:
- 40% PCS (mobile communications)
- 25% PSTN (traditional telephony)
- 35% DNI (internet traffic)
Most Volume
This department shows that all German linguistic communication metadata were collected past times 2 facilities, designated past times the next SIGADs:
- US-987LA (471 ane grand k records)
- US-987LB (81 ane grand k records)
In a follow-up article past times Der Spiegel from August 5, the German linguistic communication unusual intelligence agency BND said that it collected the 552 ane grand k metadata together with believed "that the SIGADs US-987LA together with US-987LB are associated amongst Bad Aibling together with telecommunication surveillance inward Afghanistan".* Bad Aibling is a minor town inward Southern Deutschland which had a huge listening post during the Cold War, which was also role of the ECHELON system. In 2004, the listening post was moved to a smaller facility nearby.
According to Der Spiegel, the BND collects metadata from communications which it had placed nether surveillance together with passes them, inward massive amounts, on to the NSA. BND says that it's operating inside German linguistic communication constabulary together with doesn't spy on German linguistic communication citizens. Therefore, Der Spiegel suggests that the information are alone technically acquired inward Germany, but are genuinely almost unusual targets.
However, this explanation would alone brand feel if those foreigners were contacting (or using) German linguistic communication telephone numbers together with email addresses, because otherwise at that spot would survive no argue for NSA to count their metadata equally beingness German.
Top five Techs
The techniques used for these interceptions appear nether the next codenames:
- XKEYSCORE (182 ane grand k records or 33% of the total of 552 million)
- LOPERS (131 ane grand k records or 24%)
- JUGGERNAUT (93 ane grand k records or 17%)
- CERF CALL MOSES1 (39 ane grand k records or 7%)
- MATRIX (8 ane grand k records or 1,4%)
(the tape numbers don't add together upwards to the total of 552 million, evidently at that spot are more, smaller systems involved than the five shown here)
If nosotros compare these percentages amongst the pie nautical chart showing the signal profiles, nosotros encounter that XKEYSCORE corresponds to the DNI or meshing metadata. XKEYSCORE is a tool used for indexing together with analysing meshing information together with thus it's possible that also the other programs mentioned inward the Top five Tech department are non for collecting data, but for processing together with analysing them.
According to Der Spiegel, LOPERS is a organisation to intercept Earth switched telephone network. Indeed, the some 24% of the information collected past times LOPERS fits the PSTN role of the pie chart.
This leaves the other 3 programs, together with also those non mentioned inward this Top 5, beingness used for information from mobile communication networks. Der Spiegel confirms this for JUGGERNAUT, but nosotros tin assume this for CERF CALL MOSES1 together with MATRIX too.
Spain
In the impress edition of the Castilian paper U.S. intercepts French telephone calls on a 'massive scale'.
But this is incorrect. According to a presentation together with a FAQ document, the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool is for showing the collection capabilities of NSA's Global Access Operations (GAO) division, which is responsible for intercepts from satellites together with other international SIGINT platforms.
The programme presents this information through counting together with analysing all DNI (internet) together with DNR (telephony) metadata records passing through the NSA SIGINT systems.
This means, all figures shown inward the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT screenshots are almost metadata together with not almost content. It is unclear how many telephone calls are represented past times the numbers of metadata records, but it's likely much less.
So for France, nosotros alone know certainly that NSA collected 70,3 ane grand k metadata records together with non how many telephone calls were genuinely intercepted inward the feel of recording the telephone telephone contents.
It should also survive noted that BOUNDLESSINFORMANT is evidently alone showing metadata collected past times the GAO division. Therefore, information gathered past times NSA's other principal Signals Intelligence divisions, SSO (for collection from commercial companies) together with TAO (for collection past times hacking networks together with computers), may non survive included inward the charts together with the oestrus maps.
UPDATE #1:
On Oct 29, 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that according to U.S. of A. of America officials, the metadata records for French Republic together with Kingdom of Spain were non collected past times the NSA, but past times French together with Castilian intelligence services. The metadata were gathered exterior their borders, similar inward state of war zones, together with so shared amongst NSA. This confirms the explanation of the numbers of German linguistic communication metadata, given past times El Mundo from Oct 28, 2013, at that spot was the next screenshot from BOUNDLESSINFORMANT showing information almost collection from Kingdom of Spain betwixt Dec 10, 2012 together with Jan 8, 2013. In total, sixty ane grand k metadata records were collected:
The diverse parts of this figure are the same equally described above, so hither nosotros alone expect at the specifics for Spain.
Signal Profile / Most Volume
All records were collected from mobile communications networks (PCS) together with this was done through an unknown facility designated past times the next SIGAD:
- US-987S (60 ane grand k records)
This SIGAD is really similar to the ones used for collecting the German linguistic communication information (US-987LA together with US-987LB) together with it's assumed they stand upwards for 3rd political party facilities, that is, collection sites run past times 3rd political party partner agencies of NSA. It is also rather similar to US-985D, which collected the French metadata.
Top five Techs
All records were processed or analysed past times alone ane organisation or program:
- DRTBOX (60 ane grand k records)
In the screenshot almost France, nosotros saw DRTBOX also beingness used for treatment (meta)data derived from mobile communication networks, so nosotros tin assume this organisation is non specifically used for French communications, but for traffic from mobile communication systems inward general.
DRTBOX
As almost all NSA codenames are (composed of) existent words, it looks similar DRTBOX is a spelling error, but a reader of this weblog pointed to another, really interesting option: DRT is also the abbreviation of Digital Receiver Technology, Inc. of Germantown, Maryland, which was taken over past times U.S. of A. of America military machine contractor Boeing inward 2009.
This makes it quite probable that the intercept devices of DRT are also used past times NSA for collecting information from mobile communication networks. This equipment mightiness so survive installed at facilities amongst designators similar US-987S together with others. DRTBOX (or DRT Box) itself seems to survive a organisation for processing or an interface for analysing the collected data, but similar XKEYSCORE does for collected meshing data.
> See for to a greater extent than almost DRT: U.S. intercepts French telephone calls on a 'massive scale'.
But this is incorrect. According to a presentation together with a FAQ document, the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool is for showing the collection capabilities of NSA's Global Access Operations (GAO) division, which is responsible for intercepts from satellites together with other international SIGINT platforms.
The programme presents this information through counting together with analysing all DNI (internet) together with DNR (telephony) metadata records passing through the NSA SIGINT systems.
This means, all figures shown inward the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT screenshots are almost metadata together with not almost content. It is unclear how many telephone calls are represented past times the numbers of metadata records, but it's likely much less.
So for France, nosotros alone know certainly that NSA collected 70,3 ane grand k metadata records together with non how many telephone calls were genuinely intercepted inward the feel of recording the telephone telephone contents.
It should also survive noted that BOUNDLESSINFORMANT is evidently alone showing metadata collected past times the GAO division. Therefore, information gathered past times NSA's other principal Signals Intelligence divisions, SSO (for collection from commercial companies) together with TAO (for collection past times hacking networks together with computers), may non survive included inward the charts together with the oestrus maps.
UPDATE #1:
On Oct 29, 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that according to U.S. of A. of America officials, the metadata records for French Republic together with Kingdom of Spain were non collected past times the NSA, but past times French together with Castilian intelligence services. The metadata were gathered exterior their borders, similar inward state of war zones, together with so shared amongst NSA. This confirms the explanation of the numbers of German linguistic communication metadata, given past times DRTBOX together with the DRT surveillance systems
Norway
On Nov 19, the website of the Norwegian tabloid U.S. intercepts French telephone calls on a 'massive scale'.
But this is incorrect. According to a presentation together with a FAQ document, the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool is for showing the collection capabilities of NSA's Global Access Operations (GAO) division, which is responsible for intercepts from satellites together with other international SIGINT platforms.
The programme presents this information through counting together with analysing all DNI (internet) together with DNR (telephony) metadata records passing through the NSA SIGINT systems.
This means, all figures shown inward the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT screenshots are almost metadata together with not almost content. It is unclear how many telephone calls are represented past times the numbers of metadata records, but it's likely much less.
So for France, nosotros alone know certainly that NSA collected 70,3 ane grand k metadata records together with non how many telephone calls were genuinely intercepted inward the feel of recording the telephone telephone contents.
It should also survive noted that BOUNDLESSINFORMANT is evidently alone showing metadata collected past times the GAO division. Therefore, information gathered past times NSA's other principal Signals Intelligence divisions, SSO (for collection from commercial companies) together with TAO (for collection past times hacking networks together with computers), may non survive included inward the charts together with the oestrus maps.
UPDATE #1:
On Oct 29, 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that according to U.S. of A. of America officials, the metadata records for French Republic together with Kingdom of Spain were non collected past times the NSA, but past times French together with Castilian intelligence services. The metadata were gathered exterior their borders, similar inward state of war zones, together with so shared amongst NSA. This confirms the explanation of the numbers of German linguistic communication metadata, given past times DRTBox. But this issue is but a tiny fraction of the billions of information from both meshing together with telephone communications from Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan equally listed inward the global overview map of BOUNDLESSINFORMANT.
Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan is undoubtedly beingness monitored past times numerous SIGINT collection stations together with facilities (like US-3217, codenamed SHIFTINGSHADOW which targets the MTN Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan together with Roshan GSM telecommunication companies), so seeing alone ane SIGAD inward this screenshot proves that it tin never demo the whole collection from that country.
> See for more: U.S. intercepts French telephone calls on a 'massive scale'.
But this is incorrect. According to a presentation together with a FAQ document, the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool is for showing the collection capabilities of NSA's Global Access Operations (GAO) division, which is responsible for intercepts from satellites together with other international SIGINT platforms.
The programme presents this information through counting together with analysing all DNI (internet) together with DNR (telephony) metadata records passing through the NSA SIGINT systems.
This means, all figures shown inward the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT screenshots are almost metadata together with not almost content. It is unclear how many telephone calls are represented past times the numbers of metadata records, but it's likely much less.
So for France, nosotros alone know certainly that NSA collected 70,3 ane grand k metadata records together with non how many telephone calls were genuinely intercepted inward the feel of recording the telephone telephone contents.
It should also survive noted that BOUNDLESSINFORMANT is evidently alone showing metadata collected past times the GAO division. Therefore, information gathered past times NSA's other principal Signals Intelligence divisions, SSO (for collection from commercial companies) together with TAO (for collection past times hacking networks together with computers), may non survive included inward the charts together with the oestrus maps.
UPDATE #1:
On Oct 29, 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that according to U.S. of A. of America officials, the metadata records for French Republic together with Kingdom of Spain were non collected past times the NSA, but past times French together with Castilian intelligence services. The metadata were gathered exterior their borders, similar inward state of war zones, together with so shared amongst NSA. This confirms the explanation of the numbers of German linguistic communication metadata, given past times Screenshots from BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tin survive misleading
Italy
On Dec 6, the website of the Italian paper U.S. intercepts French telephone calls on a 'massive scale'.
But this is incorrect. According to a presentation together with a FAQ document, the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool is for showing the collection capabilities of NSA's Global Access Operations (GAO) division, which is responsible for intercepts from satellites together with other international SIGINT platforms.
The programme presents this information through counting together with analysing all DNI (internet) together with DNR (telephony) metadata records passing through the NSA SIGINT systems.
This means, all figures shown inward the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT screenshots are almost metadata together with not almost content. It is unclear how many telephone calls are represented past times the numbers of metadata records, but it's likely much less.
So for France, nosotros alone know certainly that NSA collected 70,3 ane grand k metadata records together with non how many telephone calls were genuinely intercepted inward the feel of recording the telephone telephone contents.
It should also survive noted that BOUNDLESSINFORMANT is evidently alone showing metadata collected past times the GAO division. Therefore, information gathered past times NSA's other principal Signals Intelligence divisions, SSO (for collection from commercial companies) together with TAO (for collection past times hacking networks together with computers), may non survive included inward the charts together with the oestrus maps.
UPDATE #1:
On Oct 29, 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that according to U.S. of A. of America officials, the metadata records for French Republic together with Kingdom of Spain were non collected past times the NSA, but past times French together with Castilian intelligence services. The metadata were gathered exterior their borders, similar inward state of war zones, together with so shared amongst NSA. This confirms the explanation of the numbers of German linguistic communication metadata, given past times DRTBOX, which is a organisation to intercept wireless communication signals made past times DRT Inc.
WINDSTOP
On Nov 4, the Washington Post published a screenshot from BOUNDLESSINFORMANT which shows information almost collection nether the WINDSTOP program. Between Dec 10, 2012 together with Jan 8, 2013, to a greater extent than than fourteen billion metadata records were collected:
The bar nautical chart inward the summit role shows the numbers past times date, amongst DNR (telephony) inward dark-green together with DNI (internet) inward blue.
According to the Washington Post, WINDSTOP is an umbrella programme for at to the lowest degree 4 collection systems which are jointly operated past times NSA together with ane or to a greater extent than signals intelligence agencies of the 2d Party countries Britain, Canada, Commonwealth of Australia together with New Zealand.
Signal Profile
The pie nautical chart shows that to a greater extent than than 95% of the metadata are collected from meshing traffic (DNI), less than 5% is from mobile networks (PCS).
Most Volume
This department shows that nether WINDSTOP, the metadata were collected past times at to the lowest degree the next 2 facilities, designated past times their SIGADs:
- DS-300 (14100 ane grand k records)
- DS-200B (181 ane grand k records)
In a sidenote, the Washington Post says that DS-300 is the SIGAD for an interception facility which is also known nether the codename INCENSER. With fourteen billion meshing metadata records inward ane month, INCENSER seems to survive ane of NSA's major meshing collection programs, equally for March 2013, the total of meshing metadata collected worldwide was 97 billion records. For now, it's unclear where this enormous amount of information comes from.
DS-200B is a facility codenamed MUSCULAR, which is used for U.S. intercepts French telephone calls on a 'massive scale'.
But this is incorrect. According to a presentation together with a FAQ document, the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool is for showing the collection capabilities of NSA's Global Access Operations (GAO) division, which is responsible for intercepts from satellites together with other international SIGINT platforms.
The programme presents this information through counting together with analysing all DNI (internet) together with DNR (telephony) metadata records passing through the NSA SIGINT systems.
This means, all figures shown inward the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT screenshots are almost metadata together with not almost content. It is unclear how many telephone calls are represented past times the numbers of metadata records, but it's likely much less.
So for France, nosotros alone know certainly that NSA collected 70,3 ane grand k metadata records together with non how many telephone calls were genuinely intercepted inward the feel of recording the telephone telephone contents.
It should also survive noted that BOUNDLESSINFORMANT is evidently alone showing metadata collected past times the GAO division. Therefore, information gathered past times NSA's other principal Signals Intelligence divisions, SSO (for collection from commercial companies) together with TAO (for collection past times hacking networks together with computers), may non survive included inward the charts together with the oestrus maps.
UPDATE #1:
On Oct 29, 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that according to U.S. of A. of America officials, the metadata records for French Republic together with Kingdom of Spain were non collected past times the NSA, but past times French together with Castilian intelligence services. The metadata were gathered exterior their borders, similar inward state of war zones, together with so shared amongst NSA. This confirms the explanation of the numbers of German linguistic communication metadata, given past times tapping the cables linking the big information centers of Google together with Yahoo exterior the US. This intercept facility is located somewhere inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland together with operated past times GCHQ together with NSA jointly. MUSCULAR collected some 181 ane grand k records, a minor issue compared to the fourteen billion of INCENSER, but yet way likewise much given its depression intelligence value - according to NSA's Analysis together with Production division.
It's interesting to encounter information from MUSCULAR mentioned inward this screenshot, because a FAQ document almost BOUNDLESSINFORMANT from 2010 said that no metadata from MUSCULAR were counted past times this tool. But equally this nautical chart shows records from Dec 2012 together with Jan 2013, it seems that meanwhile also metadata from MUSCULAR were added.
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The programs used for processing together with analysing these interceptions are:
- XKEYSCORE (14100 ane grand k records)
- TURMOIL (141 ane grand k records)
- WEALTHYCLUSTER (1 ane grand k records)
Just similar nosotros saw inward the nautical chart almost the German linguistic communication metadata, the meshing (DNI) information are processed past times the XKEYSCORE tool. Almost all these meshing information are collected past times the facility designated DS-300 together with codenamed INCENSER.
TURMOIL is a database or a organisation which is role of the TURBULENCE program, together with seems to survive used for selecting together with storing mutual meshing encryption technologies, so they tin survive exploited past times NSA. If nosotros compare the numbers, nosotros encounter that TURMOIL is used for processing most of the information collected past times DS-200B or MUSCULAR. An NSA presentation confirms that information collected past times MUSCULAR are ingested together with processed past times TURMOIL.
WEALTHYCLUSTER is also related to the TURBULENCE programme together with is described equally "a smaller-scale endeavor to hunt downwards tips on terrorists together with others inward cyberspace" together with is said to receive got helped finding members of al-Qaida.
(Updated amongst the information almost the German linguistic communication metadata, the novel explanation past times the Wall Street Journal, the WINDSTOP metadata, the information from Kingdom of Spain together with Norway, together with the revised interpretation of the Dutch chart)
Update:
During a hearing of the German linguistic communication parliamentary investigation committee on Jan 19, 2017, old BND president Schindler said that the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT charts that Snowden took, were from grooming class material. This was said hither for the start fourth dimension together with given the problems these charts caused for BND, it's possible that they asked NSA for to a greater extent than details after which this explanation came up. However, this yet doesn't explains why the charts were interpreted incorrectly.
Links together with Sources
- HuffingtonPost.com: U.S. intercepts French telephone calls on a 'massive scale'.
But this is incorrect. According to a presentation together with a FAQ document, the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool is for showing the collection capabilities of NSA's Global Access Operations (GAO) division, which is responsible for intercepts from satellites together with other international SIGINT platforms.
The programme presents this information through counting together with analysing all DNI (internet) together with DNR (telephony) metadata records passing through the NSA SIGINT systems.
This means, all figures shown inward the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT screenshots are almost metadata together with not almost content. It is unclear how many telephone calls are represented past times the numbers of metadata records, but it's likely much less.
So for France, nosotros alone know certainly that NSA collected 70,3 ane grand k metadata records together with non how many telephone calls were genuinely intercepted inward the feel of recording the telephone telephone contents.
It should also survive noted that BOUNDLESSINFORMANT is evidently alone showing metadata collected past times the GAO division. Therefore, information gathered past times NSA's other principal Signals Intelligence divisions, SSO (for collection from commercial companies) together with TAO (for collection past times hacking networks together with computers), may non survive included inward the charts together with the oestrus maps.
UPDATE #1:
On Oct 29, 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that according to U.S. of A. of America officials, the metadata records for French Republic together with Kingdom of Spain were non collected past times the NSA, but past times French together with Castilian intelligence services. The metadata were gathered exterior their borders, similar inward state of war zones, together with so shared amongst NSA. This confirms the explanation of the numbers of German linguistic communication metadata, given past times NSA: Europeans Did Spying, Handed Data To Americans
- Dagbladet.no: U.S. intercepts French telephone calls on a 'massive scale'.
But this is incorrect. According to a presentation together with a FAQ document, the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool is for showing the collection capabilities of NSA's Global Access Operations (GAO) division, which is responsible for intercepts from satellites together with other international SIGINT platforms.
The programme presents this information through counting together with analysing all DNI (internet) together with DNR (telephony) metadata records passing through the NSA SIGINT systems.
This means, all figures shown inward the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT screenshots are almost metadata together with not almost content. It is unclear how many telephone calls are represented past times the numbers of metadata records, but it's likely much less.
So for France, nosotros alone know certainly that NSA collected 70,3 ane grand k metadata records together with non how many telephone calls were genuinely intercepted inward the feel of recording the telephone telephone contents.
It should also survive noted that BOUNDLESSINFORMANT is evidently alone showing metadata collected past times the GAO division. Therefore, information gathered past times NSA's other principal Signals Intelligence divisions, SSO (for collection from commercial companies) together with TAO (for collection past times hacking networks together with computers), may non survive included inward the charts together with the oestrus maps.
UPDATE #1:
On Oct 29, 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported that according to U.S. of A. of America officials, the metadata records for French Republic together with Kingdom of Spain were non collected past times the NSA, but past times French together with Castilian intelligence services. The metadata were gathered exterior their borders, similar inward state of war zones, together with so shared amongst NSA. This confirms the explanation of the numbers of German linguistic communication metadata, given past times France inward the NSA's crosshair : telephone networks nether surveillance
- Tweakers.net: NSA onderschepte inward maand metadata 1,8 miljoen telefoontjes inward Nederland
- De Correspondent: Wat doet de NSA precies met het Nederlandse telefoonverkeer?
- Der Spiegel: Daten aus Deutschland
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