(Updated: Jan 23, 2017)
Over the concluding months, a issue of European newspapers published screenshots from an NSA tool codenamed BOUNDLESSINFORMANT, which were said to exhibit the issue of information that NSA collected from those countries.
Most recently, a dispute almost the numbers mentioned inward a screenshot almost Kingdom of Norway urged Snowden-journalist Glenn Greenwald to issue a similar screenshot almost Afghanistan. But every bit this article volition show, Greenwald's interpretation of the latter was wrong, which also raises novel questions almost how to brand feel out of the screenshots almost other countries.
Norway vs Afghanistan
On Nov 19, the website of the Norwegian tabloid SIGAD US-962A5 too processed or analysed past times DRTBox. This issue is simply a tiny fraction of the billions of information from both meshing too telephone communications from Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan every bit listed inward the global overview.
Differences
With these big differences, it's clear that this screenshot almost Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan is non showing all information which NSA collected from that country, non fifty-fifty all telephony data. The most probable alternative is that it solely shows metadata from telephone communications intercepted past times the facility designated US-962A5.
That fits the fact that this SIGAD denotes a sub- or fifty-fifty sub-sub-facility of US-962, which agency at that topographic point are to a greater extent than locations nether this collection program. Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan is undoubtedly beingness monitored past times numerous SIGINT collection stations too facilities (like US-3217, codenamed SHIFTINGSHADOW which targets the MTN Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan too Roshan GSM telecommunications companies), then seeing solely 1 SIGAD inward this screenshot proves that it tin never exhibit the whole collection from that country.
This makes that Greenwald's declaration against the information beingness collected abroad is non valid anymore (although at that topographic point perchance other arguments against it). Glenn Greenwald was asked via Twitter to comment on the findings of this article, but at that topographic point was no reaction.
More questions
The novel insight almost the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan information agency that the interpretation of the screenshots almost other countries tin hold upward wrong too. Especially those showing solely 1 collection facility, similar France, Kingdom of Spain too Kingdom of Norway (and perchance also Italy too The Netherlands), mightiness non hold upward showing information almost that specific country, but perchance solely almost the specific intercept location.
This also leads to other questions, like: are this actually screenshots (why is at that topographic point no classification marking)? Are they move of other documents or did Snowden himself made them? And how did he brand the selection: past times country, past times facility, or otherwise?
There are many questions almost NSA capabilities too operations which Snowden cannot answer, but he can respond how precisely he got to these documents too what their proper context is. Maybe Glenn Greenwald also knows to a greater extent than almost this, too if so, it's almost fourth dimension to say that move of the even too.
Update:
During a hearing of the High German parliamentary investigation committee on Jan 19, 2017, one-time BND president Schindler said that the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT charts that Snowden took, were from preparation course of written report material. This was said hither for the outset fourth dimension too given the problems these charts caused for BND, it's possible that they asked NSA for to a greater extent than details afterwards which this explanation came up. However, this yet doesn't explains why the charts were interpreted incorrectly.
> See also: The BOUNDLESSINFORMANT interface
Links too Sources
- Le Monde/BugBrother: Bespioneerde de NSA ons of hebben wij zelf afgeluisterd?
- MatthewAid.com: Greenwald’s Interpretation of BOUNDLESSINFORMANT NSA Documents Is Oftentimes Wrong
- Dagbladet.no: NSA-files repeatedly exhibit collection of information «against countries» - non «from»
- WSJ.com: Europeans Shared Spy Data With U.S.
- Cryptome.org: Some thoughts too explanations almost the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT numbers
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