Binney Claims FBI Has Access to NSA Mass Intercepts
December 3rd, 2012Intuitively, we all knew this, but here’s a claim by someone who was in a position to know, that FBI has access to the mass intercepts.
Via: Russia Today:
Related: Retroactive Surveillance on Anyone
As President Obama plans to reshuffle his cabinet, the job of running the Treasury Department could fall to Google’s old CEO, Eric Schmidt, or Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/report-google-and-facebook-competing-for-an-obama-cabinet-slot/article/2512982
With that being said … NSA tracks every Google search and the rumor is that Facebook is basically a NSA intake portal.
Flophouse
The “Flophouse” is NSA’s Computer Facility
http://www.barthworks.com/technical/nsaafter911.htm
NSA Intercept Volume
The NSA collects millions of intercepts per hour, and the volume of them could fill the Library of Congress every three hours. Needless to say, NSA computers have huge storage capacity to hold all the intercept data.
NSA Data Collection
NSA intercepts data from the following sources:
* Phone calls
* Text messages
* Credit card receipts
* Facebook
* Myspace
* Twitter
* GPS tracking
* Cell phone geolocation
* Internet searches
* Amazon book purchases
* E-Z Pass toll records
* 2001 – NSA provided specifications for Black Widow, a large Cray computer consisting of 16 black cabinets with a splash of red.
* 2003 – NSA paid $17.5 million for the Black Widow computer which could run at hundreds of teraflops (trillions of flops) per second (perhaps 2×10 to the 14 power – 200,000,000,000,000 – floating point operations per second). The Black Widow was also known as a Cray XT5h and has 32,000 processors. It was installed at NSA Fort Meade in 2008.
* 2008 – A military super computer, Roadrunner, broke the petaflop limit (1×10 to the 15 power flops per second). Roadrunner was built by IBM at the Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico. As of 2008, NSA had a Roadrunner on order. The computer uses 3 megawatts of power, about as much as a large shopping mall. Roadrunner does 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.
* 2010 – NSA expects the Cray X-3, also known as Cascade, to break the petaflop barrier – more than one quadrillion calculations per second. The computer will cost more than $250 million.
* 2018 – NSA says that by 2018 it will need a computer that will run at exaflop speed (one quintillion calculations per second). To build this computer for NSA and the Department of Energy (DOE), a new computer research center was established in 2008, known as the institute for advanced Architecture run by Sandia Laboratories and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Tennessee. Such a computer might require 100 megawatts of power, the output of an entire power plant. One challenge is to reduce the power requirements of such a computer.
A related program …
Total Information Awareness (TIA)
This is a project to collect data from public, private, and government databases, both domestic and foreign, including
* bookstore visits
* online purchases
* gas station usage
* web searches
* web sites visited
* parking receipts
* credit card purchases
* magazine subscriptions
* prescriptions filled
* emails sent and received
* bank transactions
* trips booked
* events attended
* stock transactions
* bank transactions
* foreign military secrets
* foreign diplomatic secrets
* events attended
* all other collectible information
This touches on both the pre-9/11 ThinThread/Trailblazer software and the treatment of the whistleblowers:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_kgb_would_have_been_delighted_by_the_nsas_toys_20121130/