Cracking the NSA’s code: Part4 – The End

This week we have looked at the three main elements of the NSA’s surveillance system: Bulk data collection and the construction of an index for all communications in the country,… Read more »

Cracking the NSA’s Code: Part 3

So far this week we have looked at two of the three main components of the NSA’s surveillance system: how the NSA collects raw data from fiber optic cables and… Read more »

Cracking the NSA’s Code: Part 2

Yesterday we looked at how the NSA collects raw data from fiber optic cables and uses that to build an index of “metadata” that maps nearly all communications in the… Read more »

Cracking the NSA’s Code

If you have heard anything about the NSA this month, you have heard grand statements and sweeping generalizations. More than likely you have heard a whole gallery of commentators try… Read more »