A quick lookback at snowden's revelation and also lookign at snowden as an insider threat
*This presentation end abruptly because during the talk it ends as food for thought and kickstart of next session*
6. Hammerchant – Spy on VoIP & VPN
ANT catalog – Inject surveillance software in Apple cisco dell products
WellSpring – Collect images from email based on face recognition
DishFire – Collect upto 200million SMS a day
NoseySmurf – Smurf in iPhones & Android, turning on mic & track loc
Bullrun – NSA & GCHQ effort to weaken cryptography standards/tools
ShotGiant – program to break Chinese Huawei networks and products.
Upstream – program collects communications transiting the Internet
HappyFoot– use cookies & data from phone apps to identify users'
devices and physical locations
http://projects.propublica.org/nsa-grid/
7. Alphabetical list of NSA Programs and Tools
• A
AGILITY - NSA internet information tool or database
AGILEVIEW - NSA internet information tool or database
ALPHA - SIGINT Exchange Designator for Great Britain
ANCHORY - NSA software system which provides web access to textual
intelligence documents
AUTOSOURCE - NSA tool or database
AQUACADE - A class of SIGINT spy satellites (formerly RHYOLITE)
ASSOCIATION - NSA tool or database
• B
BANYAN - NSA tool or database
BELLTOPPER - NSA database
BELLVIEW -
BINOCULAR - Former NSA intelligence dissemination tool
BLACKPEARL - NSA tool or database
BLARNEY - NSA internet and telephony network collection program
BOUNDLESS INFORMANT - DNI and DNR data visualization tool.
BULLRUN
BYEMAN (BYE) - Retired control system for overhead collection systems
(1961-2005)
8. • C
CADENCE - NSA collection tasking tool or database
CANYON - Class of COMINT spy satellites (1968-1977)
CANNON LIGHT - Counterintelligence database of the US Army
CHESS- Compartment of TALENT KEYHOLE for the U-2 spy plane
CONFIRM - NSA database for personell access
CONTRAOCTAVE - NSA tool or database
CONVEYANCE - A voice content ingest processor? / Provide filtering for PRISM.
CORONA - A series of photographic surveillance satellites (1959-1972)
COURIERSKILL - NSA Collection mission system
CREST - Database which automatically translates foreign language intercepts in
English
CRYPTO ENABLED - collection derived from AO's efforts to enable crypto (cf.
lemonde.fr)
CULTWEAVE - Smaller size SIGINT database *
• D
DANCINGOASIS - (?)
DELTA - Compartment for COMINT material from intercepts of Soviet military
operations
DIKTER - SIGINT Exchange Designator for Norway
DINAR - Predecessor of the UMBRA compartment for COMINT
DISHFIRE - NSA internet information tool or database
DROPMIRE - passive collection of emanations using an antenna
DRTBOX -
DRUID - SIGINT Exchange Designator for third party countries
DYNAMO - SIGINT Exchange Designator for Denmark
9. • E
ECHELON - A SIGINT collection network run by Australia, Canada,
New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States,
ECHO - SIGINT Exchange Designator for Australia
EVILOLIVE -
• F
FAIRVIEW - NSA internet and telephony network collection program
FALLOUT - DNI metadata ingest processor / Provides filtering for
PRISM.
FISHBOWL - NSA program for securing commercial smartphones
FOREMAN - ?
FOXACID - target the TOR's users
• G
GMMA (G) - Compartment for highly sensitive communication
intercepts
GAMUT - NSA collection tasking tool or database
GENIE - implants of spywares
GENTE - multi-stage opetation; jumping the airgap etc. (lemonde.fr -
GLOBAL BROKER - NSA tool or database
10. • H
HAVE BLUE - Development program of the F-117A Stealth fighter-
bomber
HAVE QUICK (HQ) - Frequency-hopping system used to protect military
UHF radio traffic
HERCULES - CIA terrorism database
HIGHTIDE - NSA tool or database
HIGHLANDS - spywares implants
• I
INDIA - SIGINT Exchange Designator for New Zealand
INTRUDER - Series of ELINT and COMINT spy satellites (since 2009)
ISHTAR - SIGINT Exchange Designator for Japan
IVY BELLS - NSA, CIA and Navy operation to place wire taps on Soviet
underwater communication cables
• J
JEROBOAM - Another name used for the TRUMPET spy satellites
JUGGERNAUT - Picks up all signals from mobile networks
JUMPSEAT - Class of SIGINT reconnaissance satellites (1971-1983)
• K
KLONDIKE (KDK) - Control system for sensitive geospatial intelligence
11. • L
• LIFESAVER - imaging of the hard driver (from lemonde.fr
LITHIUM - ?
LOPERS - Software application for Public Switched Telephone Networks
• M
MAGIC LANTERN - A keystroke logging software developed by the FBI
MAGNETIC - sensor collection of magnetic emanations (lemonde.fr)
MAGNUM - Series of SIGINT spy satellites (since 1985)
MAILORDER -
MAIN CORE - Federal database of personal and financial data of
suspicious US citizens
MAINWAY - NSA database of bulk phone metadata (Call records DB)
MARINA - NSA database of bulk internet metadata (Internet records DB)
MENTOR - Class of SIGINT spy satellites (since 1995)
MESSIAH - NSA automated message handling system
METTLESOME - NSA Collection mission system
MINARET - A sister project to Project SHAMROCK (1967-1973)
MINERALIZE - collection from LAN implant (lemonde.fr
MOONLIGHTPATH - An NSA collection program
MORAY - Retired compartment for the least sensitive COMINT material
• N
NUCLEON - Database for contents of phone calls (Voice data DB)
12. • O
OAKSTAR - NSA internet and telephony network collection program, voir
aussi "2013 mass surveillance disclosures".
OCEAN - (?) from lemonde.fr.
OCEANARIUM - Database for SIGINT from NSA and intelligence sharing
partners around the world.
OCELOT - Probably a NSA program for collection from internet and
telephony networks
OCTAVE - NSA tool for telephone network tasking
OCTSKYWARD - NSA tool or database
OSCAR - SIGINT Exchange Designator for the USA
• P
PATHFINDER - SIGINT analysis tool (made by SAIC)
PINWALE - Database for recorded signals intercepts/internet content (Video
data DB)
PLUS - NSA SIGINT production feedback program *
PRISM - NSA collection program for foreign internet data
PROTON - Smaller size SIGINT database
PURPLE - Codename for a Japanese diplomatic cryptosystem during WWII
PUZZLECUBE - NSA tool or database
• Q
QUANTUM - see FOXACID - target the TOR's users,
13. • R
RADON - host tap than can inject Ethernet packets onto the same target -
exploitation of denied networks (cf. lemonde.fr)
• RAGTIME (RT) - Codeword for four NSA surveillance programs
(Ragtime-A, B, C et P).
RAMPART / RAMPART-T - penetration of hard targets at or near leadership level
RENOIR - NSA telephone network visualization tool
RESERVE (RSV) - Control system for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
RICHTER - SIGINT Exchange Designator for Germany
RUFF - Compartment of TALENT KEYHOLE for IMINT satellites
RHYOLITE - Class of SIGINT spy satellites (in 1975 changed to AQUACADE)
• S
• SABRE - Retired(?) SIGINT product codeword
SAVILLE - Narrow band voice encryption used for radio and telephone
communication
SCISSOR
SCORPIOFORE -
SHARKFIN - Sweeps up all-source communications intelligence at high speed and
volumes
SEMESTER - NSA SIGINT reporting tool
SENTINEL - NSA database security filter
SETTEE- SIGINT Exchange Designator for South Korea
14. • SHAMROCK - Operation for intercepting telegraphic data going in or
out the US (1945-1975)
SHELLTRUMPET - NSA metadata processing program
SILKWORTH - A software program used for the ECHELON system
SIRE - A software program used for the ECHELON system
SKYWRITER - NSA internet intelligence reporting tool
SOLIS - SIGINT product databases
SPHINX - Counterintelligence database of the Defense Intelligence
Agency
SPINNERET - an NSA operational branche?
SPOKE - Retired compartment for less sensitive COMINT material
STELLARWIND (STLW) - SCI compartment for the President's
Surveillance Program information
STONE GHOST - DIA classified network for information exchange
with UK, Canada and Australia
STORMBREW - NSA internet and telephony network collection
program
STUMPCURSOR - Foreign computer accessing program of the
NSA's Tailored Access Operations
15. • T
• TALENT KEYHOLE (TK) - Control system for space-based collection
platforms
TALK QUICK - An interim secure voice system created to satisfy urgent
requirements imposed by conditions to Southeast Asia. Function was
absorbed by AUTOSEVOCOM
TAPERLAY - covername for Global Numbering Data Base (GNDB)?
TAROTCARD - NSA tool or database
TEMPEST - Investigations and studies of compromising electronic
emanations
THINTREAD - NSA program for wiretapping and sophisticated analysis of
the resulting data
TRAFFICTHIEF - Part of the TURBULENCE and the PRISM programs
TRAILBLAZER - NSA Program to analyze data carried on communications
networks
TREASUREMAP - NSA internet content visualization tool
TRIBUTARY - NSA provided voice threat warning network
TRINE - Predecessor of the UMBRA compartment for COMINT
TRUMPET - Series of ELINT reconnaissance satellites (1994-2008)
TUNINGFORK - NSA tool or database
TURBULENCE - NSA Program to detect threats in cyberspace (2005- )
TURMOIL - Part of the TURBULENCE program
TUSKATTIRE - DNR (telephony) ingest processor
TUTELAGE - Part of the TURBULENCE program
16. • U
• UMBRA - Retired compartment for the most sensitive COMINT material
UNIFORM - SIGINT Exchange Designator for Canada
UPSTREAM -
• V
VAGRANT - computer screens / captures d'écrans
[lemonde.fr](http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2013/10/22/la-
diplomatie-francaise-sur-ecoute-aux-etats-unis35007173210.html
VORTEX - Class of SIGINT spy satellites (1978-1989)
• W
WEALTHYCLUSTER - Program to hunt down tips on terrorists in
cyberspace (2002- )
WEBCANDID - NSA tool or database
WHITEBOX -
• X
XCONCORD - Program for finding key words in foreign language
documents
XKEYSCORE (XKS) - Program for analysing SIGINT traffic
• Z
ZARF - Compartment of TALENT KEYHOLE for ELINT satellites
17.
18. “If everything is terrorism,
then nothing is terrorism,”
- David Gomez, a former senior FBI agent.