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British Media Reporting of NSA and Europe

Monday, July 8, 2013

This article in Der Spiegel.

Of particular note:

"Interviewer: What are some of the big surveillance programs
that are active today and how do international partners aid the NSA?

Snowden: In some cases, the so-called Five Eye Partners 4 go beyond what NSA itself does. For instance, the UK's General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has a system called TEMPORA. TEMPORA is the signals intelligence community's first "full-take" Internet buffer that doesn't care about content type and pays only marginal attention to the Human Rights Act. It snarfs everything, in a rolling buffer to allow retroactive investigation without missing a single bit. Right now the buffer can hold three days of traffic, but that's being improved. Three days may not sound like much, but remember that that's not metadata. "Full-take" means it doesn't miss anything, and ingests the entirety of each circuit's capacity. If you send a single ICMP packet 5 and it routes through the UK, we get it. If you download something and the CDN (Content Delivery Network) happens to serve from the UK, we get it. If your sick daughter's medical records get processed at a London call center … well, you get the idea.

Interviewer: Is there a way of circumventing that?

Snowden: As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the UK under any circumstances. Their fibers are radioactive, and even the Queen's selfies to the pool boy get logged.

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Contrast this with the BBC's website reporting today

"The talks come at a time of growing friction over snooping by the US
National Security Agency on its allies."

Only half the story of course.

Snowden's account of British data collection hasn't yet appeared on the BBC; presumably because TEMPORA is the subject of a DA-Notice

But this has already been widely disclosed, (in Europe) so why the DA-Notice?

Some more info...

CounterPunch
Truthdig
Deeplinks
MediaLens
Bruce Schneier's Blog

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