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▶Post 915 Anonymous
03/10/18 (Sat) 14:40:00 eb569b No.614730>>614763
PRISM is a program from the Special Source Operations (SSO) division of the NSA,
which in the tradition of NSA's intelligence alliances,
cooperates with as many as 100 trusted U.S. companies since the 1970s.
… According to this report, PRISM is only used to collect internet
communications, not telephone conversations.

XKeyscore or XKEYSCORE (abbreviated as XKS) is a formerly
secret computer system first used by the United States
National Security Agency for searching and analyzing global
Internet data, which it collects on a daily basis.
GCSB[55] = Government Communications Security Bureau is the
public-service department of New Zealand charged with promoting
New Zealand's national security by collecting and analysing
information of an intelligence nature.

TEMPORA uses intercepts on the fibre-optic cables that make
up the backbone of the Internet to gain access to large
amounts of Internet users' personal data, without any
individual suspicion or targeting. The intercepts are placed
in the United Kingdom and overseas, with the knowledge of
companies owning either the cables or landing stations.

MUSCULAR, located in the United Kingdom, is the name of a
surveillance programme jointly operated by Britain's
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)
that was revealed by
documents which were released by Edward Snowden and
interviews with knowledgeable officials.
GCHQ is the primary
operator of the program. GCHQ and the National Security
Agency have secretly broken into the main communications
links that connect the data centers of Yahoo! and Google.

Project STATEROOM, a highly secretive signals intelligence (SIGINT)
collection program targeting international
Internet, radio and telecommunications traffic.
The existence of the program was disclosed in the summer
of 2013 by Snowden, who told German newsmagazine Der Spiegel
that it consisted of SIGINT collection facilities in
nearly 100 US embassies and consulates in almost as many countries.
According to the Snowden, STATEROOM operations are
handled by a unit called Special Collection Service (SCS),
which is jointly operated by the CIA and the NSA.