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intelligence community as the standard database software for the gathering and dissemination of U.S. In addition, the CIA deployed unauthorized, copyright-infringing copies of PROMIS to virtually every component of the U.S. NSA sold PROMIS through cutouts to banking sector entities to enable real-time electronic surveillance of wire transfers of money and letters of credit, and to foreign law enforcement and intelligence agencies to facilitate computer thefts of their intelligence secrets. The government euphemistically referred to NSA's Petrie Chip as its 'special data retrieval capability' for PROMIS systems designed to steal intelligence secrets. The CIA's Division D, comprising both CIA clandestine services officers and NSA engineers, allegedly managed this PROMIS/Petrie Chip operation until the creation of the successor Special Collection Service, which thereafter assumed the responsibility. The CIA allegedly continued to use this contractor-operated PROMIS packaging facility after GE Aerospace was acquired by Martin Marietta and Martin Marietta morphed into Lockheed Martin. The Petrie Chip allegedly automatically copied data tracked in the PROMIS system and periodically transmited the data to a local NSA listening device, defeating any Tempest Shield-type protections. The Petrie Chip allegedly replaced an identical-looking integrated circuit and consumed an identical amount of power, making it virtually impossible to discover its presence in the computer. These turnkey systems were allegedly sold to foreign intelligence and law enforcement agencies and banks through cutout companies.

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What the NSA and the CIA did with copies of the PROMIS database software, beginning in 1981, provided a robust learning experience for NSA for what it appears to have been been doing more recently, according to the latest NSA documents furnished by Edward Snowden.Ī CIA contractor, GE Aerospace, allegedly operated a PROMIS packaging facility in Herndon, Virginia, beginning in the early 1980s, to install unauthorized, copyright-infringing copies of INSLAW, Inc.'s PROMIS database software on computers into which the government had covertly inserted a replacement integrated circuit, before shipping the turnkey systems to buyers overseas.Īn NSA integrated circuit manufacturing facility in the Silicon Valley allegedly produced the “Petrie Chip” which the CIA contractor covertly inserted into the computers equipped with the PROMIS software. Septem3:41 PM I just read today's Snowden-based articles in the New York Times and the Guardian on NSA actions to SIGINT-enable target communications. Tags: cryptography, Edward Snowden, encryption, intelligence, Internet, NSA, privacy, Schneier news, secrecy, surveillance I don’t know one way or the other, but that’s a good speculation.ĮDITED TO ADD (9/6): Relevant Slashdot and Reddit threads.ĮDITED TO ADD (9/13): An opposing view to my call to action.

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Code has agency, and the code has been subverted.ĮDITED TO ADD (9/6): Someone somewhere commented that the NSA’s “groundbreaking cryptanalytic capabilities” could include a practical attack on RC4. Remember this: The math is good, but math has no agency. These are my two essays on today’s revelations.

I have been working with Glenn Greenwald on the Snowden documents, and I have seen a lot of them.

It’s joint reporting between the Guardian, the New York Times, and ProPublica. They’re doing it primarily by cheating, not by mathematics. Basically, the NSA is able to decrypt most of the Internet. The new Snowden revelations are explosive. The NSA Is Breaking Most Encryption on the Internet

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