{"id":9638,"date":"2015-07-02T06:48:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T11:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9638"},"modified":"2015-07-02T06:48:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T11:48:33","slug":"xkeyscore-nsas-google-for-the-worlds-private-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9638","title":{"rendered":"XKeyscore: NSA’s Google For the World’s Private Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"

XKeyscore: NSA’s Google For the World’s Private Communications<\/a><\/h3>\n

One of the National Security Agency\u2019s most powerful tools of mass surveillance makes tracking someone\u2019s Internet usage as easy as entering an email address, and provides no built-in technology to prevent abuse.\u00a0Today,\u00a0The Intercept<\/em>\u00a0is publishing 48 top-secret\u00a0and other classified documents about XKEYSCORE dated up to 2013, which\u00a0shed new light on the breadth, depth and functionality of this critical spy system \u2014\u00a0one of the largest releases yet of documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.<\/p>\n

The NSA\u2019s XKEYSCORE program, first\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0The Guardian<\/em>, sweeps up countless people\u2019s Internet searches, emails, documents, usernames and passwords, and other private communications. XKEYSCORE is fed a constant flow of Internet traffic from\u00a0fiber optic cables<\/a>\u00a0that make up the backbone of the world\u2019s communication network, among other sources, for processing. As of 2008, the surveillance system boasted approximately 150 field sites in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, Spain, Russia, Nigeria, Somalia, Pakistan, Japan, Australia, as well as many other countries, consisting of over 700 servers.<\/p>\n

These servers store \u201cfull-take data\u201d at the collection sites \u2014 meaning that they captured all of the traffic collected \u2014 and, as of 2009, stored content for 3 to 5 days and metadata for 30 to 45 days. NSA documents indicate that tens of billions of records are stored in its database. \u201cIt is a fully distributed processing and query system that runs on machines around the world,\u201d an NSA briefing on XKEYSCORE says. \u201cAt field sites, XKEYSCORE can run on multiple computers that gives it the ability to scale in both processing power and storage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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XKEYSCORE also collects and processes Internet traffic from Americans, though NSA analysts are taught to avoid querying the system in ways that might result in spying on U.S. data. Experts and privacy activists, however, have long doubted that such exclusions are effective in preventing large amounts of American data from being swept up.<\/p>\n

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XKeyscore: NSA’s Google For the World’s Private Communications One of the National Security Agency\u2019s most powerful tools of mass surveillance makes tracking someone\u2019s Internet usage as easy as entering an email address, and provides no built-in technology to prevent abuse.\u00a0Today,\u00a0The Intercept\u00a0is publishing 48 top-secret\u00a0and other classified documents about XKEYSCORE dated up to 2013, which\u00a0shed new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1543,249,6918,4543,3353,551,577,6916,746,765,6917,4465],"class_list":["post-9638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-digital-surveillance","tag-edward-snowden","tag-global-communications","tag-intercept","tag-metadata","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nsa","tag-private-communications","tag-spying","tag-surveillance","tag-the-guardian","tag-xkeyscore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9639,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions\/9639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}