PRISM too much trouble? Get MUSCULAR
WaPo (Oct 30) - "#NSA infiltrates [private] links [between] Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, #Snowden documents say": http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-...
According to a top secret accounting dated Jan. 9, 2013, NSA’s acquisitions directorate sends millions of records every day from Yahoo and Google internal networks to data warehouses at the agency’s Fort Meade headquarters. In the preceding 30 days, the report said, field collectors had processed and sent back 181,280,466 new records — ranging from “metadata,” which would indicate who sent or received e-mails and when, to content such as text, audio and video.
The NSA’s principal tool to exploit the data links is a project called MUSCULAR, operated jointly with the agency’s British counterpart, GCHQ. From undisclosed interception points, the NSA and GCHQ are copying entire data flows across fiber-optic cables that carry information between the data centers of the Silicon Valley giants.
gf -- Gregory Foster || gfoster@entersection.org @gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/
I have serious trouble taking these acronyms seriously. VIGILANT FALCON, anyone? The story goes that the better your acronym, the more likely your pet project will get funded, but most of these are pretty ludicrous. Waiting for "PROJECT MURKA" to show up in some documents. ;-) ~Griffin On 10/30/2013 07:35 PM, Gregory Foster wrote:
WaPo (Oct 30) - "#NSA infiltrates [private] links [between] Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, #Snowden documents say": http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-...
According to a top secret accounting dated Jan. 9, 2013, NSA’s acquisitions directorate sends millions of records every day from Yahoo and Google internal networks to data warehouses at the agency’s Fort Meade headquarters. In the preceding 30 days, the report said, field collectors had processed and sent back 181,280,466 new records — ranging from “metadata,” which would indicate who sent or received e-mails and when, to content such as text, audio and video.
The NSA’s principal tool to exploit the data links is a project called MUSCULAR, operated jointly with the agency’s British counterpart, GCHQ. From undisclosed interception points, the NSA and GCHQ are copying entire data flows across fiber-optic cables that carry information between the data centers of the Silicon Valley giants. gf
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