{"id":3985,"date":"2018-11-28T10:04:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/?p=3985"},"modified":"2018-11-28T10:04:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:04:27","slug":"what-we-learned-from-snowden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/2018\/11\/28\/what-we-learned-from-snowden\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Learned from Snowden"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>With a top-secret court order, the NSA collected the telephone records from millions of Verizon customers. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/jun\/06\/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order\">June 6, 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The NSA accessed and collected data through back doors into US internet companies such as Google and Facebook with a program called Prism. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program\/2013\/06\/06\/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html?hpid=z1\">June 7, 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Britain&#8217;s GCHQ tapped fiber-optic cables to collect and store global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories, and calls, and then shares the data with the NSA. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/2013\/jun\/21\/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa\">June 21, 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Using a program called Fairview, the NSA intercepted internet and phone-call data of Brazilian citizens. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/oglobo.globo.com\/mundo\/eua-espionaram-milhoes-de-mails-ligacoes-de-brasileiros-8940934\">July 6, 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<li>NSA analysts, using the XKeyscore program, could search through enormous databases of emails, online chats, and browsing histories of targets. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/jul\/31\/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data\">July 31, 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Seven of the world&#8217;s leading telecommunications companies provided GCHQ with secret, unlimited access to their network of undersea cables. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/aug\/02\/telecoms-bt-vodafone-cables-gchq\">August 2, 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, according to an internal audit. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2013\/8\/15\/nsa-broke-privacylawthousandsoftimesaccordingtointernalaudit.html\">August 15, 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The NSA had the ability to access user data for most major smartphones on the market, including Apple iPhones, BlackBerrys, and Google Android phones. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/privacy-scandal-nsa-can-spy-on-smart-phone-data-a-920971.html\">September 7, 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The NSA used metadata augmented with other data from public, commercial, and other sources to create sophisticated graphs that map Americans&#8217; social connections. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/29\/us\/nsa-examines-social-networks-of-us-citizens.html\">September 28, 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The NSA stored a massive amount of internet metadata from internet users, regardless of whether they are being targeted, for up to one year in a database called Marina. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/sep\/30\/nsa-americans-metadata-year-documents\">September 30, 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The NSA and GCHQ worked together to compromise the anonymous web-browsing Tor network. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/oct\/04\/nsa-gchq-attack-tor-network-encryption\">October 4, 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The NSA tapped the mobile phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/merkel-calls-obama-over-suspicions-us-tapped-her-mobile-phone-a-929642.html\">October 23, 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And much more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/snowden-leaks-timeline-2016-9\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/snowden-leaks-timeline-2016-9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a top-secret court order, the NSA collected the telephone records from millions of Verizon customers. \u2014 June 6, 2013 The NSA accessed and collected data through back doors into US internet companies such as Google and Facebook with a program called Prism. \u2014 June 7, 2013 Britain&#8217;s GCHQ tapped fiber-optic cables to collect and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[244],"class_list":["post-3985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-snowden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3986,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}