NSA’s Boundless Informant
Today was the first time I encountered the term ‘boundless informant’ and now more information is becoming available about the intelligence monitoring project:
Boundless Informant: the NSA’s secret tool to track global surveillance datahttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-dataminingThe National Security Agency has developed a powerful tool for recording and analysing where its intelligence comes from, raising questions about its repeated assurances to Congress that it cannot keep track of all the surveillance it performs on American communications.
Boundless Informanthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundless_InformantBoundless Informant is a big data analysis and data visualization system used by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) to give NSA managers summaries of NSA’s world wide data collection…
PRISM and Boundless Informant: Is NSA Surveillance a Threat?http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2013/06/13-prism-boundless-informant-nsa-surveillance-lempertTo give an example, consider the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing. The authorities feared the Tsarnaev brothers might have had domestic accomplices, and they also wanted to know if foreign…
Boundless Informant: Augmented State Surveillancehttp://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/06/14/boundless-informant-augmented-state-surveillance/I start with a nota bene by saying that I do not self-identify as a “surveillance scholar” but given our current sociotechnical and political climates, the topic is unavoidable. One might even be…
Meet ‘Boundless Informant,’ the NSA’s Secret Tool for Tracking Global Surveillance Datahttp://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/meet-boundless-informant-the-nsas-secret-tool-for-tracking-global-surveillance-data/276686/According to a snapshot of a Boundless Informant heatmap that Greenwald and MacAskill obtained, which assigns each nation a color code based on how extensively it is subjected to NSA surveillance,…
The NSA’s “Boundless Informant” Collects 3 Billion Intelligence Pieces From US Computer Networks In One Monthhttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-08/nsas-boundless-informant-collects-3-billion-intelligence-pieces-us-computer-networksThere’s one reason why the administration, James Clapper and the NSA should just keep their mouths shut as the PRISM-gate fallout escalates: with every incremental attempt to refute some previously…
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