Links

Below is a listing of interesting and useful internet links about the various topics covered by this weblog:


Related weblogs:

- Christos military and intelligence corner
- About Canadian SIGINT: Lux ex Umbra
- About ciphers and crypto: Dirk's Weblog
- The nuclear secrecy blog: Restricted Data
- GCHQ's SIGINT Historian
- The SatTrackCam Leiden (b)log
- Embedded security, kernel and crypto challenges: root labs rdist
- Matthew Green: A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
- Weblog of Bruce Schneier on Security
- Steven Aftergood's Secrecy News
- The Lawfare blog
- The weblog emptywheel
- IT law from the UK: Cyberleagle
- Richard Bejtlich's blog: Tao Security
- The weblog of William M. Arkin Online
- About cyberwar: Matthijs R. Koot's notebook
- The Grugq's Tumblr: Underground Tradecraft
- Weblog from Errata Security
- Stewart Baker's Skating on Stilts
- Marc Ambinder's The Compass
- The weblog of intelligence expert Matthew Aid †
- About intelligence, strategy and security: The XX Committee / re: Snowden
- French weblog about Intelligence and Defense: Zone d'Intérêt
- Dutch intelligence weblog: 3 Secret Fingers
- A US Intelligence blog: Intelnews.org
- French intelligence newsletter: IntelligenceOnline.com
- Expert analysis & commentary TheCipherBrief.com
- The British Spy Blog
- — cypherpunks
- Wired State
- National Security Archive Blog
- Cyber Operations Tracker


Related websites:

- The Infosecurity Magazine
- Jane's International Defence Review
- German website about Geheime Welten
- Dutch website about NetKwesties.nl
- German website about Netzpolitik.org
  - Netzpolitik live blogs: NSA Inquiry

- Forum about Above Top Secret
- GlobalSecurity.org
- The Federation of American Scientists
- The Cryptome / Eyeball Series
- Spy back: NSA Observer - ICWATCH

- Nice Open Source IMINT
- Public Intelligence
- Government Attic
- The National Security Archive
- Media platform of Greenwald c.s.: The Intercept
- Articles by William Arkin: Phase Zero
- About national security issues: War on the Rocks
- Let's learn about intelligence: Intelligence 101
- Analysis of NSA material by Paul Dietrich
- AFCEA's SIGNAL Online
- The US National Cryptologic Museum Foundation
- The Homeland Security Digital Library
- Github: National Security Agency
- Declassified US intelligence documents: IC On the Record
- The Canadian Citizenlab
- The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
- Online investigations: Bellingcat.com
- European intelligence in context: About Intel


Some key documents related to NSA

- Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board report: Report on Certain NSA Uses of XKEYSCORE for Counterterrorism Purposes (pdf) (2020)
- President Biden: Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities (EO 14.086) (2022)
- Paper by Mark M. Jaycox: No Oversight, No Limits, No Worries: A Primer on Presidential Spying and Executive Order 12,333 (2019)
- Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board: Report on the Government's Use of the Call Detail Records Program Under the USA Freedom Act (2020)
- Statement before the House Committee on the Judiciary on the FISA Amendments Act (pdf) (2016)
- National Research Council: Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence: Technical Options (pdf) (2015)
- NSA Civil Liberties and Privacy Report about Targeted SIGINT Activities under EO 12333 (pdf) (2014)
- President Obama's Presidential Policy Directive (PPD-28) (pdf) (2014)
- Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board report: Surveillance Program Operated Persuant to Section 702 FISA (pdf) (2014)
- Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board report: Telephone Records Program Conducted under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act (pdf) (2014)
- Legal fact sheet: Executive Order 12333 (pdf) (2013)
- Reconstruction of the US National Intelligence Priorities Framework (2007-2013)
- The Department of Defense Directive about NSA/CSS (pdf) (2010)
- TheWeek.com: The NSA's org chart
- NSA's SIGINT Style Manual (pdf) (2010)
- The NSA Inspector General's Report about STELLARWIND (pdf) (2009)
- The NSA Strategic Mission List (pdf) (2007)
- The National Cryptologic School Television Center Catalog (1991)
- The Classified Annex to EO 12333 (pdf) (1988)
- President Reagan's Executive Order 12333 (1981)
- Links to NSA Cryptologic Histories


Some key documents related to GCHQ

- Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation: Report of the Bulk Powers Review (pdf) (2016)
- Intelligence and Security Committee of British Parliament: Report on the capabilities of the UK intelligence agencies (pdf) (2015)
- GCHQ: HIMR Data Mining Research Problem Book (pdf) (2011)


Interesting articles and sources

- Intelligence and National Security: Profiles in intelligence: an interview with Tony Comer (GCHQ historian)
- War on the Rocks: Building a Cyber Force Is Even Harder Than You Thought
- Technology Review: Meet the NSA spies who shape the future
- War on the Rocks; Five Reasons Not to Split Cyber Command from the NSA Any Time Soon – If Ever
- Matthew Green: Attack of the week: Voice calls in LTE
- Upturn: Mass Extraction: The Widespread Power of U.S. Law Enforcement to Search Mobile Phones
- Deutsche Welle: Modern spy satellites in an age of space wars
- Errata Security: How CEOs think
- Ars Technica: The Snowden Legacy, part one: What’s changed, really?
- New York Review of Books: Edward Snowden Reconsidered
- Motherboard: Important Hacking Shop You’ve Never Heard Of
- Modern War Institute: The intelligence cycle is broken. Here's how to fix it.
- NSA Paper: The Inevitability of Failure: The Flawed Assumption of Security in Modern Computing Environments
- The Drive: Mysterious US Army Spy Plane Turns Up at the Boneyard in Arizona
- Nautilus Institute: US signals intelligence (SIGINT) activities in Japan 1945 – 2015
- Hoover Institution: Nobody But Us - The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Signals Intelligence
- Henry Jackson Society: Surveillance After Snowden (2015)
- The New York Times: Amid Trump Inquiry, a Primer on Surveillance Practices and Privacy (2017)
- Newsweek: How Snowden smartened up our spying (2016)
- The Nation: 5 Corporations Now Dominate Our Privatized Intelligence Industry (2016)
- TheRegister.co.uk: NSA’s top hacking boss explains how to protect your network from his attack squads (2015)
- Wired.com: Researchers Solve Juniper Backdoor Mystery; Signs Point to NSA (2015)
- EmptyWheel.net: The FISA Court’s Uncelebrated Good Points (2015)
- Zone d'Intérêt: U.S. Intelligence Support to Find, Fix, Finish Operations (2015)
- Truther Guide: Cryptoanarchists (2015)
- David Omand: Understanding Digital Intelligence and the Norms That Might Govern It (.pdf) (2015)
- Emptywheel.net: A Guide to the 5+ Known Intelligence Community Telecommunications Metadata Dragnets
- Webpolicy.org: Executive Order 12333 on American Soil, and Other Tales from the FISA Frontier
- Matthew Green about NSA's efforts to break internet encryption protocols
- About NSA's AURORAGOLD program: NSA Hacking of Cell Phone Networks
- About FBI "backdoor" searches: When Is Congress Going to Rein In FBI Surveillance?
- Robert Sesek: Unraveling NSA's TURBULENCE Programs
- Belgian report: De Snowden-revelaties: Massale data-captatie en politieke spionage(pdf)
- Future Force: How Do We Deal with a Flood of Data?
- PBS Frontline: United States of Secrets - Part 1 - Part 2
- ArsTechnica.com: How the NSA (may have) put a backdoor in RSA’s cryptography
- ProspectMagazine.com: The errors of Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald
- Munk Debates: Glenn Greenwald Debates Former NSA Director Michael Hayden
- ForeignPolicy.com: The Cowboy of the NSA
- NPR.org: Transcript: Interview with NSA Deputy Director John Inglis
- Der Spiegel: GCHQ Revealed: Inside Her Majesty’s Listening Service
- The Telegraph: Edward Snowden: Did the American whistleblower act alone?
- Ars Technica: Deep packet inspection meets ‘Net neutrality, CALEA
- A Washington Post Investigation: Top Secret America
- Historical information about NSA collected by Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
- A crash course about the Canadian signals intelligence agency CSEC
- Paper about the intelligence capabilities of France, Germany, Italy and Turkey (pdf)
- ArsTechnica.com: A primer on elliptic curve cryptography
- ForeignPolicy.com: Stuxnet's Secret Twin
- Nigel Inkster: Snowden – myths and misapprehensions
- About President of United States: Secret Service Protection
- The Guardian's NSA Files: Decoded (2013)
- About NSA’s Activities: Valid Foreign Intelligence Targets Are the Focus (2013)
- Overview of Cloud Computing in the Intelligence Community (2013)
- Extensive Employee's Guide to Security Responsibilities
- Wikipedia listing of Signals intelligence operational platforms by nation
- CNet.com NSA eavesdropping: How it might work
- The National Security Archive: The National Security Agency Declassified (2000/2005)


Signals Intelligence agencies:

- United States: National Security Agency (NSA)
- United Kingdom: Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
- Canada: Communications Security Establishment (CSE)
- Australia: Australian Signals Directorate (ASD, formerly DSD)
- New Zealand: Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB)
- Sweden: Försvarets radioanstalt (FRA)
- Denmark: Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste (FE)
- The Netherlands: Joint SIGINT Cyber Unit (JSCU)
- Israel: Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU)
(in other countries, signals intelligence is part of the armed forces or the foreign intelligence agency)


Information Assurance agencies and divisions:

- United States: Information Assurance Directorate (IAD)
   - Information Assurance Support Environment (IASE)
   - Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS)
   - National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC)
- United Kingdom: Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG)
- Germany: Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI)
- Italy: Organismo di Certificazione della Sicurezza Informatica (OCSI)
- France: Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information (ANSSI)
- The Netherlands: Nationaal Bureau voor Verbindingsbeveiliging (NBV)
- NATO: Information Assurance Technical Centre (IATC)
- European Union: European Union Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)
- United Nations: Department of Safety & Security (DSS)


US Intelligence Community contractors::

- The World's Top 100 Largest military contractors
- SAIC - Leidos - CSRA - CACI - Booz Allen Hamilton
- Raytheon - General Dynamics - Boeing - Northrop Grumman
- L-3 Communications - CIS Secure Computing - Advanced Programs, Inc. (API) - Dell - PiccoTek
- Jasint - OptiMetrics - 2HB
- DRT - Klas Telecom - MacAulay-Brown
- Narus - Verint - IP Fabrics
- Mandiant - Endgame - CrowdStrike
- Azimuth - Linchpin Labs - Immunity
- and many more...


About ECHELON

- Covert Government/Military Interception of International Telcommunications (1999)
- Duncan Campbell, Inside Echelon (2000)
- Duncan Campbell, Paper 1: Echelon and its role in COMINT (2001)
- Homepage of Duncan Campbell
- Homepage of Nicky Hager


Documentaries about NSA:

- CBS, 60 Minutes, 2014: Inside the NSA
- PBS: NOVA, 2009: The Spy Factory
- CNN, 2001: Inside the NSA (transcript)
- History Channel, 2000: America's Most Secret Agency
- Discovery Channel, 1997: Inside the NSA


Intelligence studies associations:

- Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association: NISA
- Belgian Intelligence Studies Centre: BISC
- Center for the Study of Intelligence at the CIA
- Canadian Association for Intelligence and Security Studies: CASIS
- Gesprächskreis Nachrichtendienste in Deutschland: GKND
- Austrian Center for Intelligence, Propaganda & Security Studies: ACIPSS
- International Intelligence History Organization: IIHA


- European Network of National Intelligence Reviewers: ENNIR

- Best practices for Intelligence Oversight


Approved cryptographic products:

- For the United States / Secure Products Wiki
- For the United Kingdom
- For France
- For The Netherlands
- For Poland
- For the European Union
- For NATO


Websites about cryptographic equipment:

- Website about Cipher Machines
- The Dutch virtual Crypto Museum
- Jerry Proc's website about Crypto Machines
- Richard Brisson's collection of Vintage Cryptographic Artifacts
- Brooke Clark's pages about Crypto Machines
- Pictures by nesnet: Secure Phones
- Dirk Rijmenants' Cipher Machines and Cryptology


General telephony technology

- Citizen Lab: The Many Identifiers in Our Pockets: A primer on mobile privacy and security
- Weblog about internetworking: IPSpace.net
- The electronics of the Digital Non-Secure Voice Terminal (DNVT)
- eLectures about Telecommunications from ISDN and GSM to VoIP


General telephony history

- The American JKL Museum of Telephony
- Adam Forrest's website: Manufactured Discontinued
- In general: Telephone Collectors International
- Collection of European telephones: Telcolon.de
- Library of telephony documents
- The historical AT&T Tech Channel
- The history of UK Telephones and Telephony
- The Dutch Online Telephone Museum
- Vintage Dutch phones: Telefoniemuseum Rotterdam - Dutch Telecom
- Website about America's Cold War Infrastructure
- Yahoo news group about Cold War Communications
- Dutch weblog about Ongelukken in de krijgsmacht


General telephony websites

- Office Phone Systems
- Coveragemapfinder.com
- Telefon Forum


General Internet technology

- Verizon: Digital Security & Tech Hub
- Fiber-optic Data Rates - or Speeds
- Basic tutorial about computer networking: Omnisecu.com
- The 2017 Online Privacy Guide for Journalists
- Dutch glossary: Begrippen: VPN en Internetveiligheid


Do It Yourself

- Choosing a secure password: Schneier on Security
- Find your hacked passwords: ScatteredSecrets.com
- Check whether an account has been compromised: HaveIbeenPwned.com
- Encryption and encoding made easy: GCHQ's CyberChef
- Recover your data after a ransomware attack: NoMoreRansom.org
- Various checkup tools: MXtoolbox.com
- Map your internet: IXmaps.ca
- Try and learn cryptography: Cryptool.org



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