Posted on 08/29/2013 1:39:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
The US government's spying budget includes funds to invent new technologies "to defeat adversarial cryptography and exploit Internet traffic," leaked documents show.
Among the NSA's annual budget of $52.6 billion are requests to bankroll "groundbreaking cryptanalytic capabilities" that can beat cryptography and mine regular Internet traffic, new documents leaked by Edward Snowden to the Washington Post reveal.
The document in question, the Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Justification -- referred to as the "Black Budget" -- states on page 4: "...we are investing in groundbreaking cryptanalytic capabilities to defeat adversarial cryptography and exploit Internet traffic."
Because of its mention in the Black Budget, it's thought that this investment is different from In-Q-Tel, the Central Intelligence Agency's independent venture capital investment firm.
The Washington Post is reporting that the budget reveals a massive surge in spying infrastructure, including high-tech surveillance. Signals Intelligence, known as SIGINT, has devoted $48.6 million just on projects to cope with "information overload," and nearly 35,000 people are employed under the rubric of the Consolidated Cryptologic Program. This group spans multiple agencies, including the NSA, and the surveillance and code-breaking divisions of the joint US military.
The document reveals that this kind of cross-agency cooperation is occurring...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.cnet.com ...
Aha, so Snowden was caught in the act.
excellent post....the danger is that OBAMA will use the information for political purposes like maxine waters bragged about...we note that cass sunstein husband of UN ambassadorwas named to the NSA oversight board...
“It’s absolutely *essential* to national security that we be able to peer into all human souls, to see every possible thing they might be hiding for us. And if they try to hide from us by dying, we must be able to monitor the ghosts of the dead so that they cannot keep any secrets from us! It is *vital* that we do this! Vital! If we can’t do this, then the terrorists will win!”
Until more is released, then that will admit it could happen accidentally.
Until more is released, then they will admit it did happen a couple times by rouge rogue employees.
Until more is released, then they will admit it is normal operation, and do you have a problem wid dat?
Well, hell, they should just skip cryptology and go right to collecting and analyzing our brain waves.
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Jartran
Oh come on Jim...they ASK for what they have already been doing...that is my opinion.
Like my kid, he does something really wrong, I catch him, or am about to catch him...and then he says, “Can I do x?” :)
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