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What is known about NSA's PRISM program New insights into the PRISM program (Updated: January 21, 2016) MENGENAI SAYA Last Saturday, June 29, the Washington Post Unknown unexpectedly disclosed four new slides from the Lihat profil lengkapku powerpoint presentation about the PRISM data collection program. This disclosure came as a surprise, because earlier, Guardian-journalist Glenn Greenwald said that no more POPULAR POSTS slides would be published because they contain very 4 Steps Hacking Jcow Social Networking specific technical NSA means for collection, for which The Guardian would probably be Web Server via Arbitrary Code Execution prosecuted. 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This process starts Mini Militia v2.2.86" works with eve... with an NSA analyst typing one or more search terms, or "selectors" as NSA calls them, More U.S. Teens Watch YouTube Than Linear into the Unified Targeting Tool (UTT). Selectors may refer to people (by name, e-mail TV address, phone number or some other digital signature), organizations or subjects such Whether YouTube is a “substitute” product for linear TV is debatable. What apparently is harder to as terrorism or uranium related terms. debate is that YouTube is a preferred ven... LABELS Android Phone (46) Android media apps (35) Android Modding (12) developers (8) IDM (7) Guest Post (6) android mobile apps (6) GS Media v Sanoma C-160/15 (5) IFA (5) Android N (4) Free Udemy Courses (4) free text (4) Education (3) Eikonal (3) dessert (3) features (3) Android Mobile Phone Repairing Tips (2) Charlotte Russe (2) Connect to PC (2) Dev Center (2) Along with the selectors, the analyst must fill out an electronic form that specifies the Device Managements (2) foreign-intelligence purpose of the search and the basis for the analyst’s reasonable belief that the search will not return results for US citizens or foreign nationals who are Education tips and tricks (2) within the US at the time of data collection. Free sms Tricks (2) The slide shows that it's possible to search existing communications that are already Grocery Shopping (2) stored ("Stored Comms") and also to initiate a search for new, future communications of selected targets. The latter option is called "Surveillance", which by a number of media android mobile solution (2) was erroneously interpreted as the possibility of real-time monitoring of for example an android phone review (2) devices (2) internet chat. efox-shop (2) festive season (2) Every request made by a target analyst must be approved twice. For new surveillance free spy cell phone (2) requests, an FAA Adjudicator (S2) does the first review and validation of the target. The slide says that there are such adjudicators in every so-called Product Line, which are the free spy on cell phone (2) NSA departments for specific issues like counter terrorism and couter proliferation. A Android M (1) Connect to TV (1) second and final review of the analysts' determination is done by NSA unit S343 for Targeting and Mission Management, which then releases the tasking request through charging (1) fastboot adb (1) the Unified Targeting Tool. Then it's apparently a computer system called PRINTAURA which distributes the requests to the different collection sites. For searching stored communications, the first check is done by the Special FISA Oversight and Processing unit (SV4). According to The Washington Post this seems to refer to the federal judges of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), but according to national security reporter Marc Ambinder, the "FISA Oversight and Processing" is an internal NSA unit. The second and final review is once again done by unit S343 for Targeting and Mission Management. After the request is released to PRINTAURA, the Electronic Communications Surveillance Unit (ECSU) of the FBI checks against its own database to filter out known Americans. Different tasking tools In another source the Unified Targeting Tool (UTT) is described as a DNR tasking tool, which means it's a software program used to send so called tasking instructions to dedicated devices, telling them which data should be collected. As DNR stands for Dial Number Recognition, this sounds like the targeting tool is aimed at finding out who is behind a certain phone number, but as NSA sources often mention DNR equal to DNI (Digital Network Intelligence or internet content), it seems DNR stands for information derived from telephone networks in general. According to one of the earlier slides, NSA analysts should also use other sources, like data which can be gathered through access points that tap into the internet’s main gateway switches ("Upstream collection"). This is done through collection programs codenamed FAIRVIEW, STORMBREW, BLARNEY and OAKSTAR. Allthough by its name the Unified Targeting Tool (UTT) seems to be of a generic nature, it's not clear whether it can be used also for tasking these other sources, or that they need other tasking tools. According to the book "Der NSA Komplex" the UTT replaced the OCTAVE telephony tasking system in 2011.* Screenshot of the Unified Targeting Tool (UTT) showing how to select a "Foreigness Factor" (note the URL in the address bar starting with "gamut") From a number of job descriptions we learn that this Unified Targeting Tool is often mentioned in connection to GAMUT and sometimes also to CADENCE.
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