NSA programs overview

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Knowledge is power. The NSA haven't been to careful with their information. With 15000 documents classified documents out there I am sure that eventually my "unknowns" for the programs below will be known. I hope someone at the NSA chokes on their coffee when they read what we know and what we will still know. I am sorry the list is so long, the NSA have been busy. If you know what any of the unknowns are do let us all know.
Dial Number Recognition (DNR) Digital Network Intelligence (DNI) Geospatial Metadata Analysis (GMA) SIGINT Geospatial Analysis (SGA) SIGINT Terminal Guidance (STG) Each SIGAD is basically a collection site, physical or virtual; the SIGAD alphanumerics are used to indicate the source of intelligence FOR a particular report.
The NSA listening post at Osan in Korea has the SIGAD USA-31. Clark Air Force Base is USA-57. US-987LA is with Bad Aibling Germany US-987LB are telecommunications surveillance in Afghanistan
XKEYSCORE processes most of the SIGINT traffic that comes into the NSA by way of various SIGADs, and compartmentalizes it by selector. A selector might be "RUSFOR," which would stand for Russian foreign ministry intercepts.
PRISM is US-984XN analyze information collected and deposited in a database - 117,675 active surveillance targets in PRISM's counterterrorism database
Analysts working on a problem can request that a particular collection site be tasked, or used. The form they fill out is known as an SP0200. Additionally, when they wish to discontinue using a SIGAD for a mission, they send in another SP0200.
TURBULANCE - Consists of nine sub programs including Traffic Thief, Turmoil and Tutelage. Other subprograms unknown.
TRAFFIC THIEF - a database of "Meta-data from a subset of tasked strong-selectors" An example of a strong selector is an email address. In other words, it would be a database of the metadata associated with names, phone numbers, email addresses, that the intelligence services are specifically targeting
AGILEVIEW: DNI tool
AGILITY: DNI tool
SKYWRITER: DNI reporting tool
TREASUREMAP: DNI visualization tool
DISHFIRE: DNI
ETHEREAL: DNI
TUNINGFORK/SEEKER: DNI
OCTAVE: DNI/DNR tool for tasking
UTT - DNR tool for tasking
MAUI: a database for finished NSA intelligence products.
PROTON: SIGINT database
CULTWEAVE: SIGINT database
HERCULES: CIA terrorism database
MAIN CORE: database which contains personal and financial data of millions of U.S. citizens believed to be threats to national security
PINWALE/UIS: archived foreign and domestic e-mails database (FBI access)
MARINA - Internet/Telephone metadata database Unclear
MAINWAY: Call records Database - contains metadata for hundreds of billions of telephone calls made through the four largest telephone carriers in the United States
FALLOUT: Filter for MARINA and MAINWAY
NUCLEON: Voice data Database (FBI access)
CONVEYANCE: Filter for NUCLEON
ARTEMIS: Geospatial analysis
AIRHANDLER Geolocation analysis
DRAGONFLY: Geolocation analysis
GJALLER: Geospatial analysis
GOSSAMER: Geospatial analysis
GROWLER: Geospatial analysis
KINGFISH: Geospatial analysis
STINGRAY: Geospatial analysis
TEMPTRESS: Geolocation analysis
WITCHHUNT: Geolocation analysis
CADENCE/GAMUT: Collection mission system for tasking
UTT (Unified Targetting Tool?)
COURIERSKILL: Collection mission system
TURMOIL: Collection mission system
METTLESOME: Collection mission system
WEALTHYCLUSTER: Collection mission system
Enhanced WEALTHYCLUSTER (EWC)
MASTERLINK: Tasking source
HIGHTIDE/SKYWRITER: Desktop dashboard
RENOIR: Visualization tool
SKOPE: SIGINT analytical toolkit
DROPMIRE - NSA surveillance programme aimed at surveillance of foreign embassies and diplomatic staff, including those of NATO allies.
BLARNEY - program to access internet data at key junctions and is facilitated by arrangements with commercial cable companies and internet servce providers. (part of Upstream)
FAIRVIEW - NSA mass surveillance programme aimed at collecting phone, internet and e-mail data in bulk from the computers and mobile telephones of foreign countries' citizens. (part of Upstream)
BOUNDLESS INFORMANT - is a big data analysis and data visualization system to give NSA managers summaries of NSA's world wide data collection activities - summarizes data records from 504 separate DNR and DNI collection sources (SIGADs).
CPE (Content Preparation Environment) is a tool for writing report based on the analysis.
ANCHORY: an intelligence community-wide database for intelligence reports.
Mira4 and VERAS: German programs obtained by NSA (purpose unknown)
Surveillance Detection Units (SDU) are organizations belonging to the US Government that have conducted secret surveillance that potentially broke national laws in various European countries.
SIMAS - SDU's data is collected in a system called Security Incident Management Analysis System
NSANET - network carrying information rated Top Secret or Sensitive Compartmented Information. (Snowden access)
TERRORIST SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM - forerunner of PRISM
STELLARWIND is the code name of a Sensitive Compartmented Information security compartment for information collected under the President's Surveillance Program
TRAILBLAZER - earlier NSA effort.
PIONEER GROUNDBREAKER - IBM, ATT and NSA...
TEMPORA - British program including recordings of telephone calls, the content of email messages, Facebook entries and the personal internet history of users. Shares this with the NSA.
CCDP - The Communications Capabilities Development Programme is a UK government initiative to create a ubiquitous mass surveillance scheme for the United Kingdom. It would involve the logging of every telephone call, email and text message between every inhabitant of the UK
DHS
FAST (Hostile Intent) - Future Attribute Screening Technology - precrime screening
MATRIX - Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange Program closed down 2005
Trusted Traveller Program https://www.dhs.gov/trusted-traveler-programs
No Fly List - 22000
Terror Watch List - over a million
Disposition Matrix - number unknown
Programs unknown in the NSA:
AIRGAP/COZEN - unknown
AMHS - unknown
ARCANAPUP - unknown
ARTEMIS - unknown
ASSOCIATION - unknown
AUTOSOURCE - unknown
BANYAN - unknown
BEAMER - unknown
BELLVIEW - unknown
BLACKPEARL - unknown
CADENCE - unknown
CHALKFUN - unknown
CINEPLEX - unknown
CLOUD - unknown
COASTLINE - unknown
COMMONVIEW - unknown
CONTRAOCTAVE - unknown
CONVERGENCE - unknown
CREEK - unknown
CREST - unknown
CROSSBONES - unknown
CYBERTRANS - unknown
DOUBLEARROW - unknown
FASCIA - unknown
FASTSCOPE - unknown
FOREMAN - unknown
GISTQUEUE - unknown
GLAVE - unknown
GLOBALREACH - unknown
GOLDMINER - unknown
GOLDPOINT - unknown
GOSSAMER - unknown
HIGHTIDE - unknown
HOMEBASE - unknown
INFOSHARE - unknown
INTELINK - unknown
JOLLYROGER - unknown
LIQUIDFIRE - unknown
MASTERSHAKE - unknown
MESSIAH - unknown
METRICS - unknown
MICHIGAN - unknown
NEWHORIZONS - unknown
NIGHTSURF - unknown
NORMALRUN/CHEWSTICK/FALLENORACLE - unknown
OAKSTAR - unknown (part of Upstream)
OCELOT - unknown
OCTSKYWARD - unknown
PATHMASTER/MAILORDER - unknown
PANOPTICON - unknown
PLUS - unknown
PRESENTER - unknown
PRINTAURA - unknown
RAVENWING - unknown
ROADBED - unknown
SCORPIOFORE/CPE - unknown
SIGNAV - unknown
SHARKFINN - unknown
SNAPE - unknown
SPOTBEAM - unknown
STORMBREW - unknown (part of Upstream)
STINGRAY - unknown
SURREY - unknown
TAPERLAY - unknown
TAROTCARD - unknown
TRACFIN - unknown
TRAILMAPPER - unknown
TREASUREMAP - unknown
TRICKLER - unknown
TUNINGFORK - unknown
TUSKATTIRE - unknown
TWISTEDPATH - unknown
WEBCANDID - unknown
YELLOWSTONE/SPLITGLASS - unknown
Edit. WIRESHARK and ARCMAP removed. See Entropius' post. Both commercial/harmless programs. Don't want to create a paranoia sandwich. It is bad enough as it is.
Second edit ETHEREAL removed - thanks to PointyOintment and azaydius
Third edit: Someone wrote to me asking what my problem is:
Thank you for contacting me with your concerns. I will answer as honestly and faithfully as I can. I am not an American. I am an attorney in a far away land. Look up my user name if you really must.
ALL the information I have posted is publically available. ALL of it. The NSA should be more careful.
What has the information been used for? The one XKeyscore slide stated over 300 terrorist captured. The NSA claim that their internal spying has disrupted 58 plots in the USA. Where are all these supposed terrorists and when are their trials starting? We're not talking about the Boston Bombing, because they weren't there for that. We're talking about 58 seperate terrorist attacks which Americans have never heard about? Oh wait I hear you say "they were kept secret for a reason..." No... How about this is all fiction. Where is the evidence? General Alexander should be able to sit back, smile and start listing the targets, preparations and everything regarding each of these "58 supposed plots", yet he can only point to a single guy sending $8500 to Al-Shabaab. WOW! $8500!!! Stop the frikken presses! $8500!! /s
The other uses of internationally intercepted communications is to mark people out for death based on who they have been talking to. You are aware that the US uses telephone metadata from Afghanistan to launch strikes. Meaning that the content of the phonecalls matters not, what matters is how many times you speak to someone considered to be few enough hops away from someone considered a terrorist? I think the continual drone strikes are a crime against humanity and you only have to consider what it is like to live with the constant threat of death hanging over them.
I'm not really enjoying my schadenfreude and I told you so when it comes to US citizens losing their rights. FFS! I TOLD YOU SO! You know how many thousands of downvotes I have had to endure trying to warn of the dangers? I eventually just gave up. Americans just knew better. It fucking pains me that I got nowhere fast.
I believe that privacy is a basic human right. It is not permissable to trample it underfoot because "terrorists" and "terrorism". I have lived through a real armed campaign with bombings and landmines and I didn't buy it then and still not buying it now.
Which USG clandestine operations do you believe are of value? It all seems to have backfired rather spectacularly.
What about the abuses of these very same progams that we're hearing about? Do you think the internal surveillance should be automated and watch for people spending money they shouldn't have, can't explain and/or haven't declared to the IRS? So you think the internal surveillance should be used for petty drug possession busts?
How many people are there in Al-Qaeda? A 100 as the ISI reckon? A 1000? How many of those are in the USA? OK. Now WHY are there 117,675 active surveillance targets in PRISM's counterterrorism database? It's out by a factor of 117:1. There are over a million Americans on the Terror Watch List. What is THIS ALL ABOUT? Do you have any idea?
What is the FISA court record for and against the government? All those warrants to do all that spying.... how many cases have eventuated because of this.
So yes, I am against the NSA and everything they do and enable. I don't think the NSA represents the USA in any meaningful way. From the outside it looks like a rogue operation with no meaningful oversight.