On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 10:05:40PM +0100, katana wrote:
Hi,
"Approx 10-15 SIGINT reports pers week from "Mystic sites" other than Sca....."
1. What does "Mystic site" mean to the dear NSA? 2. Is "site" in the usual computer sense?
MYSTIC is an ECI codename for a bunch of NSA SSO/TAO-TNT collection sites or installations in foreign telephony provider networks (perhaps corporate partner access with NSA NCSC), collecting telephony contents and metadata in different countries: ACIDWASH ? DUSKPALLET (Kenia, TOPI:CIA) ETCHINGSPIN ? EVENINGEASEL (Mexico, TOPI:CIA) LAUNDROMAT ? PERMANENTPRESS ? RANCIDRINSE ? VENATOR (Philippines, with 5-Eyes partner ASD/Australia)
The "Sca..." is imo SCALAWAG, one of the SOMALGET class MYSTIC collection sites/projects (the other SOMALGET's are BASECOAT, OILYRAG, LOLLYGAG)
-- Katana
Thanks to all who replied! www.nsa-observer.net defines it very similarly.