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 National Security Agency's XKeyscore surveillance program

XKeyscore is an internet surveillance program of the U.S. National Security Agency. It intercepts all internet activity, including email and web browsing.

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updated Wed. August 28, 2024

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Snowden said one of the tools he used while at the NSA to spy on his targets was XKEYSCORE, which allowed him to look at the full internet activity history of his target using their IP (Internet protocol) address. He also said the NSA would spy on radicals' pornography viewing habits “for the purpose of ...
The Intercept posted on its website an April 2013 document suggesting the NSA had provided Japan with the XKeyscore tool that, according to earlier Snowden documents, gives users the ability to suck up huge amounts of online data and search through numerous private communications, including ...

“This collaborative environment also produced a piece of software called “XKEYSCORE Helper,” a tool programmed with Palantir (and thoroughly stamped with its logo) that allowed analysts to essentially import data from the NSA's pipeline, investigate and visualize it through Palantir, and then presumably ...
What's more, XKeyscore users – which include not only NSA agents but also their counterparts in partnering countries that include Canada, New Zealand and the UK – can get the keys to every wireless network through the gathering of router information. One of the slides in the new set of XKeyscore screen ...
The snapshots we have of XKEYSCORE date to 2013, so the chances are that the system has matured since then, but as of the day Edward Snowden scraped and exfiltrated its specs, it was something of a shambles. However, to its credit, it did not (and may still not) support Internet Explorer. XKS is/was a ...
Web traffic wasn't XKeyscore's only target. In fact, according to the documents posted by The Intercept, it was able to gather data like voice recordings. A list of the intercepted data included "pictures, documents, voice calls, webcam photos, web searches, advertising analytics traffic, social media traffic, ...

But the recently released XKeyscore documents provide a much more complete picture of how the NSA feeds its big data monsters and how it gets "situational awareness" of what's happening on the Internet. What follows is an analysis of how XKeyscore works and how the NSA's network surveillance ...
The Guardian has released more information about a program that appears to let the NSA access almost any part of a web user's digital life. A set of 2008 and 2010 training documents discuss a program called XKeyscore, which acts as a central interface for email, Facebook chat, web browsing history, and ...
XKeyscore, the documents boast, is the NSA's "widest reaching" system developing intelligence from computer networks – what the agency calls Digital Network Intelligence (DNI). One presentation claims the program covers "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet", including the content of ...
One of the slides disclosed the existence of an NSA program called “XKEYSCORE,” which appears to involve the mass storage of international Internet metadata—including information about emails, phone calls, log-ins, and other user activity—that can later be mined, or “queried,” by an NSA analyst from a ...
Undressing for XKeyscore - norms/forms to fit in/out" by Zeljko Blace. Andi Weiland | berlinergazette.de. CC-BY-NC. The Snowden disclosures ...
Xkeyscore gets a duplicate stream of live Internet data flowing through these network nexus points, and it uses a collection of rules-based ...
The Intercept posted on its website an April 2013 document suggesting the NSA had provided Japan with the XKeyscore tool that, according to ...
The report goes into more detail on the development of two particular software systems, one called Kite and one known as XKEYSCORE ...
What's more, XKeyscore users – which include not only NSA agents but also their counterparts in partnering countries that include Canada, ...
Following up on its in-depth look at which communications the secret XKEYSCORE tool lets the NSA search, The Intercept makes some ...
NSA documents leaked to the Guardian in 2013 described a covert program called XKeyscore, which involved a searchable database for ...

But the recently released XKeyscore documents provide a much more complete picture of how the NSA feeds its big data monsters and how it ...
A set of 2008 and 2010 training documents discuss a program called XKeyscore, which acts as a central interface for email, Facebook chat, ...
The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the ...
... saw a Russian flag, a human eye and an email address including the phrase “xkeyscore” – the name of a powerful NSA snooping system.
The Intercept posted on its website an April 2013 document suggesting the NSA had provided Japan with the XKeyscore tool that, according to ...
The report goes into more detail on the development of two particular software systems, one called Kite and one known as XKEYSCORE ...
Significantly, one of the illegal databases used the XKeyscore software, sometimes called the NSA's Google. As Ars reported last year, it was ...
Following up on its in-depth look at which communications the secret XKEYSCORE tool lets the NSA search, The Intercept makes some ...
Following up on its in-depth look at which communications the secret XKEYSCORE tool lets the NSA search, The Intercept makes some ...
NSA documents leaked to the Guardian in 2013 described a covert program called XKeyscore, which involved a searchable database for ...
But the recently released XKeyscore documents provide a much more complete picture of how the NSA feeds its big data monsters and how it ...
A set of 2008 and 2010 training documents discuss a program called XKeyscore, which acts as a central interface for email, Facebook chat, ...
The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the ...
One of the slides disclosed the existence of an NSA program called “XKEYSCORE,” which appears to involve the mass storage of international ...
It started in 2013 with Edward Snowden revealing the details of such programs as PRISM and XKeyscore employed by the US National Security Agency (NSA) for global surveillance.
Just when you thought things could get any worse, the Trump White House today accused the British government of spying on Donald Trump for Barack Obama during the campaign.
It was his disclosures that let Americans - and people around the world - learn of NSA programs like PRISM, Dishfire and XKeyscore, which, respectively, allowed for the monitoring of electronic data retrieved from nine large tech companies, grabbed ...
It was his disclosures that let Americans - and people around the world - learn of NSA programs like PRISM, Dishfire and XKeyscore, which, respectively, allowed for the monitoring of electronic data retrieved from nine large tech companies, grabbed 200 ...
Is this the same as the Edward Snowden leaks? Most of these CIA leaks target devices - or end users - known as 'endpoints'.
And though Palantir's website extols the wonders of privacy, it helped construct a surveillance system for the NSA called XKeyscore, which the NSA itself has called its most invasive system. XKeyscore maps out a jumble of personal data that allows ...
Jika menilik kembali pada kasus Verizon yang dibongkar Ed Snowden, Verizon mengumpulkan data pribadi setiap penggunanya dengan dibantu program XkeyScore yang bahkan mampu mengakses kamera pribadi dari gadget yang dimiliki pengguna ...
The company has built tools to assist the United States National Security Agency's XKEYSCORE program, a key tool in its surveillance mission, according to documents provided by Edward Snowden.
According to a report by the Intercept, the NSA's XKeyscore programme is one of the most invasive surveillance programmes and is capable of intercepting a wide array of communications and other data.
"This collaborative environment also produced a piece of software called "XKEYSCORE Helper," a tool programmed with Palantir (and thoroughly stamped with its logo) that allowed analysts to essentially import data from the NSA's pipeline, investigate ...
JS: Now, one of the other things that you're revealing, and, I understand for the first time, is confirmation of the extent of Palantir's integration with the NSA and its Five Eyes partner's XKEYSCORE program. Which of course was one of the first ...
Billionaire Peter Thiel's company Palantir helped support the National Security Agency's controversial spy program XKeyscore, according to a report in The Intercept citing previously undisclosed documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Palantir ...
A program called Xkeyscore processes all intercepted signals before they then move on to another area that deals with particular specialized issues.
A program called Xkeyscore processes all intercepted signals before they then move on to another area that deals with particular specialized issues.
The documents included details of the NSA PRISM program, which allows court-approved access to American's Google and Yahoo accounts, and also the Xkeyscore program - an analytical tool that collects citizen's metadata. Under the US espionage act, ...
When it comes to assembling a surveillance juggernaut that unconstitutionally gathers (until recently) unlimited metadata and tracks Americans' online transactions through systems with sinister names like XKeyscore, it is a model of efficiency. When it ...
Secret documents leaked by US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden indicate that Pine Gap also contributes to a broad US National Security Agency collection program code-named ''X-Keyscore''. Pine Gap is one of three major satellite tracking ...
When it comes to assembling a surveillance juggernaut that unconstitutionally gathers (until recently) unlimited metadata and tracks Americans' online transactions through systems with sinister names like XKeyscore, it is a model of efficiency. When it ...
Between PRISM, Boundless Informant, Co-Traveler, XKeyscore and SKYNET, the US government built probably the largest networks of spying tools ever seen.


 

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