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Related: About this forumBoundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data
The National Security Agency has developed a powerful tool for recording and analysing where its intelligence comes from, raising questions about its repeated assurances to Congress that it cannot keep track of all the surveillance it performs on American communications.The Guardian has acquired top-secret documents about the NSA datamining tool, called Boundless Informant, that details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information it collects from computer and telephone networks.
The focus of the internal NSA tool is on counting and categorizing the records of communications, known as metadata, rather than the content of an email or instant message.
The Boundless Informant documents show the agency collecting almost 3 billion pieces of intelligence from US computer networks over a 30-day period ending in March 2013. One document says it is designed to give NSA officials answers to questions like, "What type of coverage do we have on country X" in "near real-time by asking the SIGINT [signals intelligence] infrastructure."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining
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Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data (Original Post)
oldironside
Jun 2013
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dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)1. Operation Complete ***ts
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oldironside
(1,248 posts)2. That was the fastest comment I've ever had. nt
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)3. Wonder who makes up these couplets ?
Enduring Freedom, Boundless Informant, Chinless Wonder............
Creepy Crawly might've been better for this one.