{"id":20315,"date":"2015-03-18T12:35:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T19:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=20315"},"modified":"2015-03-18T12:35:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T19:35:48","slug":"bulk-collection-of-signals-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/18\/bulk-collection-of-signals-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Agitator<\/a> who might not want to be named sent me a .pdf pre-publication copy of an upcoming report, “Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence.”<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s from the wittily named “Committee on Responding to Section 5(d) of Presidential Policy Directive 28: The Feasibility of Software to Provide Alternatives to Bulk Signals Intelligence Collection; Computer Science and Telecommunications Board; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences; National Research Council ” and its aim is apparently (not their words) to find better ways of targeting everybody rather than just randomly spying on everybody. (It’s a fine distinction, I know. But when you’re well-connected enough for the fedgov to let you serve on the august CORTS5(d)OPD28TFOSTPATBSICCSATBDOEAPSNRC such distinctions matter to you.)<\/p>\n

The report is officially to be released on Friday. (And you know what a Friday release means; the fedgov wants it ignored.)<\/p>\n

Behind the typically unreadable bureaucratic prose, there are some revealing bits. I warn you, it’s as boring as dirt, but if you want a copy of this report, just drop a comment using a functional email address in your login. I’ll email it to you.<\/p>\n

But of course, receiving an email from me will mean that you fall under section 3.1 (“Contact chaining”): “Communications metadata, domestic and foreign, is used to develop contact chains by starting with a target and using metadata records to determine who has communicated directly with the target (1 hop), who has in turn communicated with those people (2 hop), and so on. [And hey, pretty soon, you’ve got Kevin Bacon in your terrorist network<\/a>!]”<\/p>\n

So maybe you’re better off just clicking the “Contents” link on the NAP site, ‘kay? It’s all there, anyhow.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

The Agitator who sent the .pdf is — he knows for sure — one of the Target People. He’s had those red circles painted on him for many years and is quite used to it. He sent along some familiar, but always worthy, advice (I’ve massaged the words a bit to disguise his identity): <\/p>\n

Think of it from this perspective: If your adversary has documented that they always chase down red balloons, well, give them a sea of red balloons to chase down.<\/p>\n

I once established that the govt was beyond obviously reading emails between me and an attorney. These communications were considered privileged and off limits under all laws (didn’t stop the government).<\/p>\n

“So they like reading do they?” I told the attorney. <\/p>\n

Then I emailed multiple 10,000 page documents to the attorney in rapid succession. I gave them all the red balloons their little bureaucratic hearts could ever desire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure how well the attorney might have appreciated that. But you get the picture. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Agitator who might not want to be named sent me a .pdf pre-publication copy of an upcoming report, “Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence.” It’s from the wittily named “Committee on Responding to Section 5(d) of Presidential Policy Directive 28: The Feasibility of Software to Provide Alternatives to Bulk Signals Intelligence Collection; Computer Science and Telecommunications Board; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences; National Research Council ” and its aim is apparently (not their words) to find better ways of targeting everybody rather than just randomly spying on everybody. (It’s a fine distinction, I know. But when you’re well-connected enough…<\/p>\n

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