#NSA Report Outlined Goals for More Power - NYTimes.com
By JAMES RISEN and LAURA POITRAS, November 22, 2013
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/us/politics/nsa-report-outlined-goals-for-more-power.html?pagewanted=all
(U) SIGINT Strategy 2012-2016 (23 février 2012)
▻http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/11/23/us/politics/23nsa-sigint-strategy-document.html
In response to the controversy about its activities after Mr. #Snowden’s disclosures, agency officials claimed that the N.S.A.’s sweeping domestic surveillance programs had helped in 54 “terrorist-related activities.” But under growing scrutiny, congressional staff members and other critics say that the use of such figures by defenders of the agency has drastically overstated the value of the domestic surveillance programs in counterterrorism.
Relying on Internet routing data, commercial and Sigint information, Treasure Map (...) collects Wi-Fi network and geolocation data, and between 30 million and 50 million unique Internet provider addresses (...) It boasts that the program can map “any device, anywhere, all the time.”
(...) The program is not used for surveillance, they said, but to understand computer networks.
The program takes advantage of the capabilities of other secret N.S.A. programs. To support Treasure Map, for example, the document states that another program, called Packaged Goods, tracks the “traceroutes” through which data flows around the Internet. Through Packaged Goods, the N.S.A. has gained access to “13 covered servers in unwitting data centers around the globe,” according to the PowerPoint. The document identifies a list of countries where the data centers are located, including Germany, Poland, Denmark, South Africa and Taiwan as well as Russia, China and Singapore.
Despite the document’s reference to “unwitting #data_centers,” government officials said that the agency does not hack into those centers. Instead, the officials said, the intelligence community secretly uses front companies to lease space on the servers.
Au passage je découvre la page SIGINT sur Wikipedia, où il est question d’interception sur #câbles_sous-marins :
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renseignement_d'origine_%C3%A9lectromagn%C3%A9tique#Interception_des_c