Timeline masters of the internet - Revision history

Alex at 08:29, 11 September 2015

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‎Related

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‎NSA information overload

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‎Spying on indian leaders

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‎The CIA’s new black bag is digital

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 * [[Surveillance]]
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 September 11, 2013: document shows how intelligence being shared with Israel would not be filtered in advance by NSA analysts to remove US communications <ref>The Guardian: NSA and Israeli intelligence: memorandum of understanding – full document http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/11/nsa-israel-intelligence-memorandum-understanding-document
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 This timeline serves awareness of the power of storytelling, retrospective exercises (''connecting dots''), further research and investigation, propaganda exercises (''detecting and shredding fallacious arguments''), threat modeling (''"quick and dirty" requires knowledge ready at hand''), finding moves aiding survival of the greatest scope of life to a greater degree than any associated destruction, and other weird stuff like that, so if you add a story, we love it!
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 == Masters of the internet ==

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	This timeline serves awareness of the power of storytelling, retrospective exercises (''connecting dots''), further research and investigation, propaganda exercises (''detecting and shredding fallacious arguments''), threat modeling (''"quick and dirty" requires knowledge ready at hand''), finding moves aiding survival of the greatest scope of life to a greater degree than any associated destruction, and other weird stuff like that, so if you add a story, we love it!		This timeline serves awareness of the power of storytelling, retrospective exercises (''connecting dots''), further research and investigation, propaganda exercises (''detecting and shredding fallacious arguments''), threat modeling (''"quick and dirty" requires knowledge ready at hand''), finding moves aiding survival of the greatest scope of life to a greater degree than any associated destruction, and other weird stuff like that, so if you add a story, we love it!
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 === NSA information overload ===
 October 14, 2013: The NSA collects over 250 million email inbox views and contact lists per year from services like Yahoo, Gmail and Facebook. It collects the data in bulk from the fiber optic cables carrying phone and Internet traffic. The collection points are outside of the united states, so the NSA is not a legally required to filter out data of americans, but according to a spokesperson it does have a policy to "minimize the acquisition, use and dissemination" of Americans' data. <ref>The Washington Post: NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html</ref><ref>Apps Washington Post: The NSA's problem? Too much data. http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/the-nsas-overcollection-problem/517/</ref><ref>Apps Washington Post: SCISSORS: How the NSA collects less data http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/how-the-nsa-tried-to-collect-less/518/</ref><ref>Apps Washington Post: An excerpt from the NSA's Wikipedia http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/an-excerpt-from-intellipedia/519/
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	== Snowden leaks ==		== Snowden leaks ==
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		+	=== Canadian CSEC spying on brazil's ministry of mines and energy ===
		+	October 6, 2013: Documentos vazados pelo americano Edward Snowden mostram que dessa vez o alvo é o Ministério de Minas e Energia. E não são só os Estados Unidos que estão envolvidos. As comunicações de computadores, telefones fixos e celulares do ministério foram mapeadas pela agência de espionagem do Canadá <ref>O Globo: Ministério de Minas e Energia está na mira de espiões americanos e canadenses http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/10/ministerio-das-minas-e-energia-esta-na-mira-de-espioes-americanos-e-canadenses.html</ref>.
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		+	=== NSA information overload ===
		+	October 14, 2013: The NSA collects over 250 million email inbox views and contact lists per year from services like Yahoo, Gmail and Facebook. It collects the data in bulk from the fiber optic cables carrying phone and Internet traffic. The collection points are outside of the united states, so the NSA is not a legally required to filter out data of americans, but according to a spokesperson it does have a policy to "minimize the acquisition, use and dissemination" of Americans' data. <ref>The Washington Post: NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html</ref><ref>Apps Washington Post: The NSA's problem? Too much data. http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/the-nsas-overcollection-problem/517/</ref><ref>Apps Washington Post: SCISSORS: How the NSA collects less data http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/how-the-nsa-tried-to-collect-less/518/</ref><ref>Apps Washington Post: An excerpt from the NSA's Wikipedia http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/an-excerpt-from-intellipedia/519/
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	=== Meet the spies doing the NSA’s dirty work ===		=== Meet the spies doing the NSA’s dirty work ===

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 === Spying on indian leaders ===
-Among the BRICS group of emerging nations, which featured quite high on the list of countries targeted by the secret surveillance programs of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) for collecting telephone data and internet records, India was the number one target of snooping by the American agency. [...] According to documents provided to The Hindu by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the American agency carried out intelligence gathering activities in India using at least two major programs: the first one is Boundless Informant, a data-mining system which keeps track of how many calls and emails are collected by the security agency; and the second one is PRISM, a program which intercepts and collects actual content from the networks. While Boundless Informant was used for monitoring telephone calls and access to the internet in India, PRISM collected information about certain specific issues — not related to terrorism — through Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, Apple, YouTube and several other web-based services. <ref>The Hindu: India among top targets of spying by NSA http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-among-top-targets-of-spying-by-nsa/article5157526.ece</ref>
+September 23, 2013: Among the BRICS group of emerging nations, which featured quite high on the list of countries targeted by the secret surveillance programs of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) for collecting telephone data and internet records, India was the number one target of snooping by the American agency. [...] According to documents provided to The Hindu by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the American agency carried out intelligence gathering activities in India using at least two major programs: the first one is Boundless Informant, a data-mining system which keeps track of how many calls and emails are collected by the security agency; and the second one is PRISM, a program which intercepts and collects actual content from the networks. While Boundless Informant was used for monitoring telephone calls and access to the internet in India, PRISM collected information about certain specific issues — not related to terrorism — through Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, Apple, YouTube and several other web-based services. <ref>The Hindu: India among top targets of spying by NSA http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-among-top-targets-of-spying-by-nsa/article5157526.ece</ref>
 == Minaret ==
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 As the Vietnam War escalated during Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency, domestic criticism and protest movements abounded. Protesters surrounded the Pentagon in the fall of 1967 and two years later organized demonstrations and the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. The scale of the dissent angered Johnson as well as his successor, Richard Nixon. As fervent anti-communists, they wondered whether domestic protests were linked to hostile foreign powers, and they wanted answers from the intelligence community. The CIA responded with Operation Chaos, while the NSA worked with other intelligence agencies to compile watch lists of prominent anti-war critics in order to monitor their overseas communications. By 1969, this program became formally known as "Minaret." <ref>Foreign Policy Investigation: Secret Cold War Documents Reveal NSA Spied on Senators http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/09/25/secret-cold-war-documents-reveal-nsa-spied-on-senators/</ref>
 == NSA attacking tor ==
-October 2013: The online anonymity network Tor is a high-priority target for the National Security Agency. The work of attacking Tor is done by the NSA's application vulnerabilities branch, which is part of the systems intelligence directorate, or SID. The majority of NSA employees work in SID, which is tasked with collecting data from communications systems around the world.
+October 4, 2013: The online anonymity network Tor is a high-priority target for the National Security Agency. The work of attacking Tor is done by the NSA's application vulnerabilities branch, which is part of the systems intelligence directorate, or SID. The majority of NSA employees work in SID, which is tasked with collecting data from communications systems around the world.
 According to a top-secret NSA presentation provided by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, one successful technique the NSA has developed involves exploiting the Tor browser bundle, a collection of programs designed to make it easy for people to install and use the software. The trick identified Tor users on the internet and then executes an attack against their Firefox web browser. The NSA refers to these capabilities as CNE, or computer network exploitation.  <ref>Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/tor-attacks-nsa-users-online-anonymity</ref>

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 Mike Masnick: Schneier also notes that this is basically the same technique the Chinese have used for their Great Firewall. In other words, the complicit nature of the telcos in basically giving the NSA and GCHQ incredibly privileged access to the backbone is part of what allows them to conduct those kinds of man-in-the-middle attacks. It still amazes me that there isn't more outrage over the role of the major telcos in all of this. <ref>How The NSA Pulls Off Man-In-The-Middle Attacks: With Help From The Telcos https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131004/10522324753/how-nsa-pulls-off-man-in-the-middle-attacks-with-help-telcos.shtml
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 == The CIA’s new black bag is digital ==
-The CIA’s clandestine service is now conducting these sorts of black bag operations on behalf of the NSA, but at a tempo not seen since the height of the Cold War. Moreover, these missions, as well as a series of parallel signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection operations conducted by the CIA’s Office of Technical Collection, have proven to be instrumental in facilitating and improving the NSA’s SIGINT collection efforts in the years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
+July 17, 2013: The CIA’s clandestine service is now conducting these sorts of black bag operations on behalf of the NSA, but at a tempo not seen since the height of the Cold War. Moreover, these missions, as well as a series of parallel signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection operations conducted by the CIA’s Office of Technical Collection, have proven to be instrumental in facilitating and improving the NSA’s SIGINT collection efforts in the years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
 Over the past decade specially-trained CIA clandestine operators have mounted over one hundred extremely sensitive black bag jobs designed to penetrate foreign government and military communications and computer systems, as well as the computer systems of some of the world’s largest foreign multinational corporations. Spyware software has been secretly planted in computer servers; secure telephone lines have been bugged; fiber optic cables, data switching centers and telephone exchanges have been tapped; and computer backup tapes and disks have been stolen or surreptitiously copied in these operations. <nowiki> </nowiki>In other words, the CIA has become instrumental in setting up the shadowy surveillance dragnet that has now been thrown into public view. Sources within the U.S. intelligence community confirm that since 9/11, CIA clandestine operations have given the NSA access to a number of new and critically important targets around the world, especially in China and elsewhere in East Asia, as well as the Middle East, the Near East, and South Asia. (I’m not aware of any such operations here on U.S. soil.) <ref>Foreign policy: The CIA’s New Black Bag Is Digital http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/17/the-cias-new-black-bag-is-digital/