New NSA Snowden Documents
Glenn Greenwald’s new book, No Place to Hide, was published today. There are about 100 pages of NSA documents on the book’s website. I haven’t gone through them yet. At a quick glance, only a few of them have been published before.
EDITED TO ADD (5/13): It’s suprising how large the FBI’s role in all of this is. On page 81, we see that they’re the point contact for BLARNEY. (BLARNEY is a decades-old AT&T data collection program.) And page 28 shows the ESCU—that’s the FBI’s Electronic Communications Surveillance Unit—is point on all the important domestic collection and interaction with companies. When companies deny that they work with the NSA, it’s likely that they’re working with the FBI and not realizing that it’s the NSA that getting all the data they’re providing.
Mike the goat • May 13, 2014 7:55 AM
As an aside I noticed that Greenwald today wrote in The Guardian about the NSA tampering with embedded devices.
His book looks like an interesting read and I will surely acquire a copy. I can only hope that now he has had his moment in the sun and (without doubt) made a fair amount of cash he can – in the interest of full disclosure – release all of the documents without redactions, some of which were downright cowardly (i.e. not revealing the names of the VPN products mentioned) and his response to the criticism pretty illogical (paraphrased: so many other products have had NSA tampering it would be misleading to list the few mentioned). Not hating on the guy – I think he has done a stand up job of ensuring that the average Joe is aware of what this rogue government agency is doing. Releasing the names of the products mentioned wouldn’t endanger anyone (like revealing a name of an informant, for example) and might shed some further light on what exactly is going on and how they go about injecting themselves into commercial software and hardware companies especially those outside the United States.