INDEX

Below is an index of all articles on this weblog, grouped by their main subject(s) and with newest articles on top:

Signals Intelligence (SIGINT)

Communications Security (COMSEC)

Top Level Telecommunications

Signals Intelligence (SIGINT)

National Security Agency (NSA)

NSA collection systems
- The equipment aboard an EP-3E electronic surveillance plane
- FAIRVIEW: Collecting foreign intelligence inside the US
- INCENSER, or how NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables
- Some numbers about NSA's data collection
- NSA's largest cable tapping program: DANCINGOASIS
- Slides about NSA's Upstream collection
- NSA's global interception network
- DRTBOX and the DRT surveillance systems
- New slides about NSA collection programs
 
Section 215 domestic phone records
- About the legality and constitutionality of the Section 215 metadata program
- Collection of domestic phone records under the USA FREEDOM Act
- How NSA contact chaining combines domestic and foreign phone records
- Section 215 bulk telephone records and the MAINWAY database
 
The BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool
- Dutch government tried to hide the truth about metadata collection
- BOUNDLESSINFORMANT: metadata collection by Dutch MIVD instead of NSA
- The BOUNDLESSINFORMANT interface
- Screenshots from BOUNDLESSINFORMANT can be misleading
- BOUNDLESSINFORMANT only shows metadata
 
The PRISM program
- Section 702 FAA expires: what are the problems with PRISM and Upstream?
- What is known about NSA's PRISM program
- PRISM as part of the BLARNEY program
- NSA says there are three different PRISMs
- New insights into the PRISM program
- Is PRISM just a not-so-secret web tool?
- Are the NSA's PRISM slides photoshopped?
 
International cooperation
- What the NSA provides to its foreign partners, and vice versa
- A unique note from the BND about European SIGINT alliances
- Maximator and other European SIGINT alliances
- From 9-Eyes to 14-Eyes: the Afghanistan SIGINT Coalition (AFSC)
- A document about the UKUSA partnership with unknown classification compartments
- Data sharing systems used within the Five Eyes partnership
- New details about the joint NSA-BND operation Eikonal
- Some equipment that connects NSA with its foreign partners
- The German operation Eikonal as part of NSA's RAMPART-A program
- NSA's foreign partnerships
- 14-Eyes are 3rd Party partners forming the SIGINT Seniors Europe
- Five Eyes, 9-Eyes and many more
- What are SIGADs starting with DS for?
- NSA also has arrangements with foreign internet providers

Non-Snowden leaks
- New details about the Pentagon Leak
- Everything you want to know about the Pentagon/Discord Leak
- Jareh Dalke arrested for offering NSA documents to the Russians
- Daniel Hale arrested for being the source of The Drone Papers
- Are the Shadow Brokers identical with the Second Source?
- With NSA contractor Martin arrested, other leakers may still be at large
- Is the Shadow Brokers leak the latest in a series?
- Leaked documents that were not attributed to Snowden
- Wikileaks published some of the most secret NSA reports so far

Snowden
- On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations
- Edward Snowden and the targeted drone killing campaign
- NSA documents and cover names from the book Dark Mirror
- Edward Snowden and the STELLARWIND report
- Review of Snowden's book Permanent Record - Part II: At the NSA
- Review of Snowden's book Permanent Record - Part I: At the CIA
- The Snowden files: where are they and where should they end up?
- Snowden would not have been able to legally "wiretap anyone"
- Snowden-documents show no evidence for global mass surveillance

Other NSA topics
- The NSA's new organizational designators
- Some new snippets from the Snowden documents
- The National Security Operations Center (NSOC): 50 years in photos
- About the legality of the NSA's testing and SIGINT Development projects
- The serial numbers of NSA reports
- The NSA's regional Cryptologic Centers
- E-mails from inside the NSA bureaucracy
- Something about the use of selectors: correlations and equations
- How NSA targeted the Venezuelan oil company PdVSA
- NSA's Legal Authorities
- NSA and GCHQ stealing SIM card keys: a few things you should know
- NSA's Strategic Mission List
- Document shows that it was not NSA, but FBI that monitored 5 Americans
- The National Security Agency in 2002
- Video demonstration of two intelligence analysis tools
- New interpretations of NSA monitoring the German chancellor
- NSA's organizational designations
- How NSA targeted chancellor Merkel's mobile phone
- An NSA eavesdropping case study (Mexico & Brazil)
- Pictures at the NSA's 60th anniversary

Listings
- NSA Nicknames and Codewords
- NSA's TAO Division Codewords
- NSA's organizational designators
- NSA Glossary
- SIGINT Activity Designators (SIGADs)
 

United Kingdom (GCHQ)

- INCENSER, or how NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables
- Torus: the antenna to significantly increase satellite interception
- NSA and GCHQ stealing SIM card keys: a few things you should know
- How GCHQ prepares for interception of phone calls from satellite links
- GCHQ Codewords and Abbrevations
 

Canada (CSE)

- OLYMPIA: How Canada's CSEC maps phone and internet connections
- Did CSEC really track Canadian airport travellers?
- CSE Codewords and Abbreviations
 

New Zealand (GCSB)

- Torus: the antenna to significantly increase satellite interception
- New Zealand and XKEYSCORE: not much evidence for mass surveillance
 

Germany (BND)

- A unique note from the BND about European SIGINT alliances
- Bulk interception by Germany's BND and what the Constitutional Court said about it
- Wikileaks publishes classified documents from inside German NSA inquiry commission
- Secret report reveals: German BND also uses XKEYSCORE for data collection
- German journalists about working with the Snowden documents
- Something about the use of selectors: correlations and equations
- Unnoticed leak answers and raises questions about operation Eikonal
- New details about the selectors NSA provided to BND
- New details about the joint NSA-BND operation Eikonal
- German BND didn't care much about foreign NSA selectors
- German investigation of the cooperation between NSA and BND (III)
- German investigation of the cooperation between NSA and BND (II)
- Update on tapping German chancellor Merkel's phone
- German investigation of the cooperation between NSA and BND (I)
- The German operation Eikonal as part of NSA's RAMPART-A program
- Pictures from inside the German intelligence agency BND
- New interpretations of NSA monitoring the German chancellor
- How NSA targeted chancellor Merkel's mobile phone
- How secure is the Merkel-Phone?
- BND Codewords and Abbreviations
 

Austria

- Leaked report reveals security risks at the Austrian security service BVT
- Unnoticed leak answers and raises questions about operation Eikonal
 

France (DGSE)

- A look at the latest French laws on intelligence collection
- Wikileaks published some of the most secret NSA reports so far
 

The Netherlands (AIVD & MIVD)

- Eerste Kamer bereikt iets meer duidelijkheid over de Tijdelijke wet cyberoperaties [NL]
- Laatste kans voor duidelijkheid over de Tijdelijke wet cyberoperaties [NL]
- The GRU close access operation against the OPCW in perspective
- Dutch report provides metadata numbers to compare with Snowden documents
- Dutch-Russian cyber crime case reveals how the police taps the internet
- A perspective on the new Dutch intelligence law
- Something about the use of selectors: correlations and equations
- New details about the joint NSA-BND operation Eikonal
- NSA and GCHQ stealing SIM card keys: a few things you should know
- Dutch government tried to hide the truth about metadata collection
- BOUNDLESSINFORMANT: metadata collection by Dutch MIVD instead of NSA
- Dutch queen Beatrix' phone
 

Denmark (FE)

- Head of Danish military intelligence arrested but independent inquiry finds no wrongdoing
- The NSA tried to spy on Danish and other European targets via cable tapping in Denmark
- Danish military intelligence uses XKEYSCORE to tap cables in cooperation with NSA
- Head of Danish military intelligence suspended after misleading the oversight board
 

Switzerland (SND & NDB)

- The report of a Swiss investigation into the case of Crypto AG


Miscellaneous

- Safe and Free: comparing national legislation on electronic surveillance
- What if Google was an intelligence agency?
- Video demonstration of two intelligence analysis tools
 

Communications Security (COMSEC)

Secure phones of heads of state

- The phones of the Dutch Prime Minister
- Some SIGINT and COMSEC during the Nuclear Security Summit
- How secure is the Merkel-Phone?
- How Obama's BlackBerry got secured
- President Reagan using a STU-II telephone
- Obama using a secure GSM phone


Secure mobile phones

- General Dynamics secures commercial smartphones
- Highly secure mobile phones
- Swiss video on mobile phone security


Miscellaneous

- About Intellipedia and other intelligence wikis from the Snowden trove
- A mysterious Tektron secure telephone
- US military and intelligence computer networks
 

Classification

- The highly classified documents found at Trump's residence Mar-a-Lago
- A document about the UKUSA partnership with unknown classification compartments
- Do NSA compliance reports point to an unknown classification compartment?
- About STELLARWIND and other mysterious classification markings
- NSA still uses the UMBRA compartment for highly sensitive intercepts
- The British classification marking STRAP
- Five Eyes, 9-Eyes and many more
- From BULLRUN to NOCON and LACONIC
- The US classification system
 

Top Level Telecommunications

Hotlines

- From the Hotline to the first video call between presidents Biden and Putin
- US government uses Swiss diplomatic network to communicate with Iran
- The hotlines between North and South Korea
- The hotline between Washington and the former German capital Bonn
- Obama used a cybersecurity link for the first time to warn Russia
- The red phone that was NOT on the Hotline
- The 50th anniversary of the Washington-Moscow Hotline
- Bilateral hotlines worldwide
- The Washington-Moscow Hotline


Phones of the President of the United States

- The telephone contacts of president George W. Bush
- The phones in president Biden's Oval Office
- The communications equipment in Trump's Situation Room photo
- A new secure phone for outside the White House
- Trump's telephones in the Treaty Room
- Trump's communications equipment outside the White House
- Mysterious devices in Trump's pop-up situation room
- Trump's "beautiful" Oval Office phones and what was changed on them
- The presidential communications equipment under Barack Obama
- 9/11 inside the White House emergency bunker
- New IP phones in the White House
- New phones aboard Air Force One
- Some SIGINT and COMSEC during the Nuclear Security Summit
- How Obama's BlackBerry got secured
- President Reagan using a STU-II telephone
- Obama using a secure GSM phone
- Obama on vacation
- Does Obama really lack cool phones?


Phones of other heads of state and government

- A new secure red telephone for German chancellor Scholz
- The phones of Ukrainian president Zelensky
- The phones of the Dutch Prime Minister
- Another "red phone" for the Israeli prime minister
- How secure is the Merkel-Phone?
- The phones and the iMac of Kim-Jong un
- Papal telephony
- Dutch queen Beatrix' phone
- The Israeli prime minister's red phone


US government and military phones

- The communications systems at the US Central Command headquarters
- The phones of former FBI director Robert Mueller
- The phones of US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
- A mysterious Tektron secure telephone
- NSA director Alexander's phones
- US State Department red phones
- A White House staff phone
- Commander Petraeus' phones
- Inside the White House Situation Room

Other postings

- The 5-year anniversary of this weblog
- Telephony abbreviations
- Internet abbreviations
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Links