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Breaking NSA Update: New leaked NSA docs show that the GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet..., including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate page view counts on web sites, “amplify” sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor video content judged to be “extremist.” The capabilities, detailed in documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The tools have been assigned boastful code names. They include invasive methods for online surveillance ... • “Change outcome of online polls” ( UNDERPASS) • “Mass delivery of email messaging to support an Information Operations campaign” ( BADGER) and “mass delivery of SMS messages to support an Information Operations campaign” ( WARPARTH) • “Disruption of video-based websites hosting extremist content through concerted target discovery and content removal.” ( SILVERLORD) • “Active skype capability. Provision of real time call records ( SkypeOut and SkypetoSkype ) and bidirectional instant messaging. Also contact lists.” ( MINIATURE HERO) • “Find private photographs of targets on Facebook” (SPRING BISHOP) • “A tool that will permanently disable a target’s account on their computer” ( ANGRYPIRATE) • “Ability to artificially increase traffic to a website” ( GATEWAY) and “ability to inflate page views on websites” ( SLIPSTREAM) • “Amplification of a given message, normally video, on popular multimedia websites (Youtube)” ( GESTATOR) • “Targeted Denial Of Service against Web Servers” (PREDATORS FACE) and “Distributed denial of service using P2P. Built by ICTR, deployed by JTRIG” (ROLLING THUNDER) • “A suite of tools for monitoring target use of the UK auction site eBay (ebay .co .uk)” (ELATE) • Ability to spoof any email address and send email under that identity (CHANGELING) • “For connecting two target phone together in a call” ( IMPERIAL BARGE) READ MORE: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-online-polls-ways-british-spies-seek-control-internet/
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 06:22:53 +0000

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