Revealed documents

Exploiting US/UK/CAN Phone Numbers — In Compliance with USSID-18 Policy

This SIDToday post dated 18 January 2006 discusses how NSA is dealing with a new obstacle: IP telephony services whereby a target can obtain a US or UK phone number. A VoIP Normalization Working Group worked with NSA’s Office of General Counsel to develop a system whereby such numbers can be classified as of non US status, where certain legal protections would not apply: see the Intercept article 328 NSA Documents Reveal “Vast Network” of Iranian Agents, Details of a Key Intelligence Coup, and a Fervor for Voice-Matching Technology, 15 August 2015.

Freedom of Information Act requests to NSA more than doubled in the wake of New York Times reporting that the agency was conducting warrantless wiretapping of Americans, from around 800 in a typical year to more than 1,600 in the first half of 2006. In this SIDToday post from 1 June 2006, a staff member from the responsible department explains their “dirty job”: see the Intercept article 328 NSA Documents Reveal “Vast Network” of Iranian Agents, Details of a Key Intelligence Coup, and a Fervor for Voice-Matching Technology, 15 August 2015.

In part of a series published by the internal newsletter SIDToday, a GCHQ liaison officer at Fort Meade, Maryland, shares his perspective on life in traffic, food, and local pastimes: see the Intercept article 328 NSA Documents Reveal “Vast Network” of Iranian Agents, Details of a Key Intelligence Coup, and a Fervor for Voice-Matching Technology, 15 August 2015.

In part of a series published by the internal newsletter SIDToday, a Signals Intelligence Directorate employee in West Virginia talks about the Sugar Grove site, which consists of a naval facility by the Potomac River and an underground facility on a mountaintop: see the Intercept article 328 NSA Documents Reveal “Vast Network” of Iranian Agents, Details of a Key Intelligence Coup, and a Fervor for Voice-Matching Technology, 15 August 2015.

In part of a series published by the internal newsletter SIDToday, an NSA employee at the Utah Regional Language Center shares a “taste of what life is like there”: see the Intercept article 328 NSA Documents Reveal “Vast Network” of Iranian Agents, Details of a Key Intelligence Coup, and a Fervor for Voice-Matching Technology, 15 August 2015.

In part of a series published by the internal newsletter SIDToday, an NSA employee in Ankara shares his perspective on Turkish traffic, food, and culture: see the Intercept article 328 NSA Documents Reveal “Vast Network” of Iranian Agents, Details of a Key Intelligence Coup, and a Fervor for Voice-Matching Technology, 15 August 2015.

In part of a series published by the internal newsletter SIDToday, an NSA staffer at Menwith Hill Station in England describes life in a small North Yorkshire village called Staveley: see the Intercept article 328 NSA Documents Reveal “Vast Network” of Iranian Agents, Details of a Key Intelligence Coup, and a Fervor for Voice-Matching Technology, 15 August 2015.

In part of a series published by the internal newsletter SIDToday, a Signals Intelligence Directorate employee deployed to Japan talks about life in Misawa, near the northern tip of Honshu, versus Tokyo: see the Intercept article 328 NSA Documents Reveal “Vast Network” of Iranian Agents, Details of a Key Intelligence Coup, and a Fervor for Voice-Matching Technology, 15 August 2015.

In part of a series published by the internal newsletter SIDToday, an NSA office manager living in Bangkok describes her “wondrous adventure” in Thailand as a single woman. It is safe, friendly, and the cost of living is so low that you may “never want to live back home again.” She notes that domestic help is cheap and reliable: see the Intercept article 328 NSA Documents Reveal “Vast Network” of Iranian Agents, Details of a Key Intelligence Coup, and a Fervor for Voice-Matching Technology, 15 August 2015.

This 10 May 2006 SIDToday post outlines a computer network operations unit called Dragon Team which stages denial of service and geolocation attacks against the high power cordless phone networks then favoured by Iraqi and Afghan insurgents: see the Intercept article 328 NSA Documents Reveal “Vast Network” of Iranian Agents, Details of a Key Intelligence Coup, and a Fervor for Voice-Matching Technology, 15 August 2015.