NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally

Washington Post ^

[ConservativeMan55]

The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Maxine Waters: “Obama Has Put In Place” Secret Database With “Everything On Everyone” (Video)

Looks like she wasn't kidding..

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[Squantos]

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[Triple]

Perfect!

[Shady]

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[onyx]

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[DuncanWaring]

You see Tony Heaton’s “Todd Dullard” (might have meant Bob Bullard) comment?

[upchuck]

From the article:

Each day, the presentation said, the NSA collects contacts from an estimated 500,000 buddy lists on live-chat services as well as from the inbox displays of Web-based e-mail accounts.

That right there makes me glad I've never used web-based email.

I have a couple of throw-away gmail accounts, but that's it.

[ConjunctionJunction]

[Las Vegas Dave]

Of possible interest to the PING list members..

[RC one]

pssst. The Matrix Has you.

[bert]

Hmmm... photos

The emails I get back from lady spies almost always have phone numbers

[khelus]

tu for the ping

[Izzy Dunne]

Dang, that’s creepy good.

[smilebig1]

No true purpose to so much info other than spending our money. Backing up the entire Web?

[Guttlekraw]

The volume of NSA contacts collection is so high that it has occasionally threatened to overwhelm storage repositories, forcing the agency to halt its intake with "emergency detasking" orders.

The example cited in the article:

In fall 2011, according to an NSA presentation, the Yahoo account of an Iranian target was "hacked by an unknown actor," who used it to send spam. The Iranian had "a number of Yahoo groups in his/her contact list, some with many hundreds or thousands of members."

The cascading effects of repeated spam messages, compounded by the automatic addition of the Iranian's contacts to other people's address books, led to a massive spike in the volume of traffic collected by the Australian intelligence service on the NSA's behalf.

After nine days of data-bombing, the Iranian's contact book and contact books for several people within it were "emergency detasked."

So, these idiots stop monitoring an Iranian target (i.e. a suspicious person of interest who is a citizen of a hostile power) because the boner-pill ads are using up too much storage space, but they continue their illegal surveillance of millions of honest American citizens??

I'm not sure where these people belong: in prison, or in a lunatic asylum.

[TurboZamboni]

[JoeProBono]

[rarestia]

pssst. The Matrix Has you.

It IS possible to operate outside of the Matrix, but that doesn't preclude you from discovery.

[jayrunner]

Hey Big Mucky mucks at NSA et al, while you’re collecting everyone’s e-mails, find the spammers and delete my addresses. I Don’t Need Viagra!