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From the Snowden revelations, the general public learned about the Five Eyes partnership between the signals intelligence agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but details about this cooperation remained shrouded in secrecy.

Now, a batch of internal newsletters of the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID), published last August by the website The Intercept, provides new information about various systems for sharing information, metadata, content and reports among the Five Eyes partners. - From BRUSA to Five Eyes - Joint Executive for SIGINT Interoperability (JESI) - Information sharing: IWS - Interoperable access control: PKI - Sharing metadata: MAINWAY - Federated metadata queries: GLOBALREACH - Sharing content: TICKETWINDOW - Sharing end reports: CATAPULT - SIDtoday newsletters https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-york-hidden-in-p... They called it Project X. It was an unusually audacious, highly sensitive assignment: to build a massive skyscraper, capable of withstanding an atomic blast, in the middle of New York City. It would have no windows, 29 floors with three basement levels, and enough food to last 1,500 people two weeks in the event of a catastrophe. But the building’s primary purpose would not be to protect humans from toxic radiation amid nuclear war. Rather, the fortified skyscraper would safeguard powerful computers, cables, and switchboards. It would house one of the most important telecommunications hubs in the United States