NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep
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The National Security Agency has collected almost 200 million text messages a day from across the globe, using them to extract data including location, contact networks and credit card details, according to top-secret documents.
The untargeted collection and storage of SMS messages – including their contacts – is revealed in a joint investigation between the Guardian and the UK’s Channel 4 News based on material provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The documents also reveal the UK spy agency GCHQ has made use of the NSA database to search the metadata of “untargeted and unwarranted” communications belonging to people in the UK.
The NSA program, codenamed Dishfire, collects “pretty much everything it can”, according to GCHQ documents, rather than merely storing the communications of existing surveillance targets.
The NSA has made extensive use of its vast text message database to extract information on people’s travel plans, contact books, financial transactions and more – including of individuals under no suspicion of illegal activity.
An agency presentation from 2011 – subtitled “SMS Text Messages: A Goldmine to Exploit” – reveals the program collected an average of 194 million text messages a day in April of that year. In addition to storing the messages themselves, a further program known as “Prefer” conducted automated analysis on the untargeted communications.
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[url]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/16/nsa-collects-millions-text-messages-daily-untargeted-global-sweep[/url]
Credit card details huh? Who texts people credit card info? Really?
[quote] In addition to storing the messages themselves, a further program known as “Prefer” conducted automated analysis on the untargeted communications.[/quote]
Insider secret: it's just an intern going CTRL + F: "jihad"
I wrote to my friend "I'm killing Obama" as we were joking about the NSA once, I wonder if they saw it
I hope they saw the picture of me impaling donuts on my dick.
I'm going to start sending 100% more dick pics, as in two a year instead of one.
I'm not even remotely shocked or surprised.
[QUOTE=Dr McNinja;43565211]I'm going to start sending 100% more dick pics, as in two a year instead of one.[/QUOTE]
The article says that if you're American your data is already getting filtered out automatically, so unfortunately the vast treasure trove of American dick pics is unavailable.
[QUOTE=Water-Marine;43565145]I hope they saw the picture of me impaling donuts on my dick.[/QUOTE]
This made me wonder.
What kind of random fucking weird ass photos would they intercept from 200 million texts a day?
At this point if theirs a pool of information, the NSA has its hand in it.
Atleast thats what it feels like
What if I type, a bagpack, pressure rice cooker, bag of marbles, flour and thermite into google? Will that arouse the NSA?
[QUOTE=BCell;43565330]What if I type, a bagpack, pressure rice cooker, bag of marbles, flour and thermite into google? Will that arouse the NSA?[/QUOTE]
Someone got a visit from the FBI because he was searching up backpacks and his wife searched up pressure cookers and they probably assumed someone was trying to make a bomb.
[QUOTE=BCell;43565330]What if I type, a bagpack, pressure rice cooker, bag of marbles, flour and thermite into google? Will that arouse the NSA?[/QUOTE]
the FBI is on its way
[QUOTE=Water-Marine;43565145]I hope they saw the picture of me impaling donuts on my dick.[/QUOTE]
"Stop. Blow that up to 300%. Wow. Can you bounce this to the main screen for me?"
Everybody looks up as the massive screen at the front of the room flickers, awaiting curiously what will appear. The screen comes alive with a massive stretched image of doughnuts hanging off a dick. A pause of silence.
"We did it!" Someone exclaims as the room erupts in a storm of whooping and cheering, everyone clapping as they glare at their coworkers in euphoria
[editline]16th January 2014[/editline]
A man with stained pants sprints out of the room in a panic after being overcome with excitement
I'm getting tired of hearing all the ridiculous stunts the NSA pulls.
I wonder how the NSA would even check all the txt messages, do they have key words or something?
[QUOTE=Andokool12;43565560]"Stop. Blow that up to 300%. Wow. Can you bounce this to the main screen for me?"
Everybody looks up as the massive screen at the front of the room flickers, awaiting curiously what will appear. The screen comes alive with a massive stretched image of doughnuts hanging off a dick. A pause of silence.
"We did it!" Someone exclaims as the room erupts in a storm of whooping and cheering, everyone clapping as they glare at their coworkers in euphoria
[editline]16th January 2014[/editline]
A man with stained pants sprints out of the room in a panic after being overcome with excitement[/QUOTE]
I think you mean [I]a [/I]doughnut hanging off a dick.
[QUOTE=catbarf;43565252]The article says that [b]if you're American your data is already getting filtered out automatically[/b], so unfortunately the vast treasure trove of American dick pics is unavailable.[/QUOTE]
Do you believe that? Because I don't, they probably have something else tracking texts for us Americans that's separate from this system. That's honestly how I feel at this point.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;43565633]I think you mean [I]a [/I]doughnut hanging off a dick.[/QUOTE]
"I hope they saw the picture of me impaling donut[B][I][U]s[/U][/I][/B] on my dick"
[QUOTE=LSK;43565681]Do you believe that?[/QUOTE]
Considering this is coming from classified internal documentation detailing their procedures so that their own analysts know how to use their tools, yeah. It's just as credible as anything else in the article.
[QUOTE=catbarf;43565252]The article says that if you're American your data is already getting filtered out automatically, so unfortunately the vast treasure trove of American dick pics is unavailable.[/QUOTE]
FOILED AGAIN
[QUOTE=draugur;43564878]Credit card details huh? Who texts people credit card info? Really?[/QUOTE]
I use one of those Square things for my small business and we text receipts to customer's cellphones.
this is the time for everyone around the world to text pics of their dicks to one another
[QUOTE=Mingebox;43565633]I think you mean [I]a [/I]doughnut hanging off a dick.[/QUOTE]
Oh I get it
they got my ex's tits
have fun with that nsa guy
[QUOTE=EpikEnvy2.0;43566836]they got my ex's tits
have fun with that nsa guy[/QUOTE]
Those were tits? The fuck is wrong with her?
they have all my embarrassing drunk texts don't they?
[QUOTE=Lonestriper;43567061]they have all my embarrassing drunk texts don't they?[/QUOTE]
And so much more. We know at what blood alcohol level your sexuality becomes fluid.
They probably got that irate message they sent to me from hospital about having me drawn and quartered if I didn't get back soon, even though I was really sick at the time and could barely crawl out of bed.
If it helps, our HR guy is a non-medical fellow, so he doesn't know shit about how hard it is to come in to work day after day.
Though I suppose most of it is just filtered by keywords, I hope at least half the stuff I write gets read.
Silly NSA trying to understand it would amuse me greatly.
Also sometimes I go on about how I buy nuclear warheads from Russia, in secret of course, just to see if I can annoy them. I use Skype so chances are they have all of it!
I wonder how much trouble I'd get into if I hacked into the NSA..I'm in Australia though so they'd have to come find me! My giant army of spiders and kangaroos will save me!
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