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Subject: [NATURAL_DEFENCE] NSA Uses Trick to Spy On USAmericans

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NSA Uses Trick to Spy On USAmericans

By Washington's Blog - June 26, 2017

The government is spying on most USAmericans through our computers,
phones, cars, buses, streetlights, at airports and on the street, via
mobile scanners and drones, through our credit cards and smart meters,
televisions, dolls, and in many other ways.

This week, ZDNet reported that the NSA uses a trick to get around the
few flimsy USAmerican laws on spying … they shuttle internet traffic
overseas so they can pretend they’re monitoring foreign
communications:

A new analysis of documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden
details a highly classified technique that allows the National
Security Agency to “deliberately divert” US internet traffic, normally
safeguarded by constitutional protections, overseas in order to
conduct unrestrained data collection on USAmericans.

According to the new analysis, the NSA has clandestine means of
“diverting portions of the river of internet traffic that travels on
global communications cables,” which allows it to bypass protections
put into place by Congress to prevent domestic surveillance on
USAmericans.

One leaked top secret document from 2007 details a technique that
allows the intelligence agency to exploit the global flow of internet
data by tricking internet traffic into traveling through a set and
specific route, such as undersea fiber cables that the agency actively
monitors

PICTURE: TRAFFIC-SHAPING

Leaked NSA document from 2007. (Image: source document)

The document’s example noted Yemen, a hotspot for terrorism and
extremist activity. It is difficult to monitor because the NSA has
almost no way to passively monitor internet traffic from the cables
that run in and out of the country. By shaping the traffic, the agency
can trick internet data to pass through undersea cables that are
located on friendlier territory.

Goldberg’s research takes that logic and focuses it on US citizens,
whose data and communications is out of bounds for the intelligence
agencies without a valid warrant from the surveillance court.

The government only has to divert their internet data outside of the
US to use the powers of the executive order to legally collect the
data as though it was an overseas communication. Two USAmericans can
send an email through Gmail, for example, but because their email is
sent through or backed up in a foreign data center, the contents of
that message can become “incidentally collected” under the executive
order’s surveillance powers.

Thomas Drake – one of the top NSA executives, and Senior Change Leader
within the NSA – blew the whistle on this deceptive practice more than
a decade ago.

For his troubles, Drake was prosecuted under the Espionage Act and
literally framed by the government.

Postscript:  Drake also notes that the government is storing for the
long-term just about everything they’re collecting.

But don’t worry … the government would never think of doing anything
bad with the information.

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Embedded links

https://tcf.org/content/report/surveillance-without-borders-the-traffic-shaping-loophole-and-why-it-matters/
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3871807-Network-Shaping-NSA-document.html
http://www.zdnet.com/article/legal-loopholes-unrestrained-nsa-surveillance-on-americans/
http://zdnet2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2017/06/22/70cc25e0-6194-4704-9e40-013b37eb34d7/resize/770xauto/cb945cfc4b2d8095a929b812bd7466e5/screen-shot-2017-06-21-at-11-27-00-pm.png
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3871807-Network-Shaping-NSA-document.html

https://twitter.com/Thomas_Drake1/status/877877256496050176
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/06/senior-nsa-manager-police-state-worse-stasi-east-germany.html
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/06/senior-nsa-manager-course-theyre-collecting-everyones-content-well-metadata.html
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/nsa-blackmailing-world.html
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/06/spying-different-time.html

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/04/67361.html
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/09/the-government-is-spying-on-us-through-our-computers-phones-cars-buses-streetlights-at-airports-and-on-the-street-via-mobile-scanners-and-drones-through-our-smart-meters-and-in-many-other-ways.html
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/tyler-durdens-picture-slippery-slope-yes-samsung-smart-tv-can-listen-private-conversations.html
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/big-barbie-watching-meet-wifi-connected-barbie-doll-talks-children-records.html
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/03/cia-documents-reveal-agency-spying-us-smart-tvs.html