What the dear NSA allegedly mean by "Mystic site"?
Georgi Guninski
guninski at guninski.com
Sun Feb 8 05:59:20 PST 2015
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.
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