You'll only get the data if it's in the NSA's databases, but if it is there you'll get it. "I, sitting at my desk," said Snowden, could "wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge to even the president, if I had a personal email." These facts bolster one of Snowden's most controversial statements, made in his first video interview published by The Guardian on June 9, 2013. Since a query can get at the recorded raw data, a single query is effectively a retrospective wiretap.Īll this means that the Intercept is correct when it writes: These are things which are supposed to be low latency, and you can't have an approval process for low latency analyst queries. Standing queries - called "workflows" - and new fingerprints have an approval process, presumably for load issues, but individual queries are not approved beforehand but may be audited after the fact. There seems to be no access controls at all restricting how analysts can use XKEYSCORE. "At field sites, XKEYSCORE can run on multiple computers that gives it the ability to scale in both processing power and storage." "It is a fully distributed processing and query system that runs on machines around the world," an NSA briefing on XKEYSCORE says. NSA documents indicate that tens of billions of records are stored in its database. These servers store "full-take data" at the collection sites - meaning that they captured all of the traffic collected - and, as of 2009, stored content for 3 to 5 days and metadata for 30 to 45 days. As of 2008, the surveillance system boasted approximately 150 field sites in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, Spain, Russia, Nigeria, Somalia, Pakistan, Japan, Australia, as well as many other countries, consisting of over 700 servers. XKEYSCORE is fed a constant flow of Internet traffic from fiber optic cables that make up the backbone of the world's communication network, among other sources, for processing. The NSA's XKEYSCORE program, first revealed by The Guardian, sweeps up countless people's Internet searches, emails, documents, usernames and passwords, and other private communications. I've been reading through the 48 classified documents about the NSA's XKEYSCORE system released by the Intercept last week.
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