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Treasure Map: NSA, GCHQ Work On Real-Time "Google Earth" Internet Observation
wabrandsma) writes with the latest accusations about NSA spying activity in Germany.
According to top-secret documents from the NSA and the British agency GCHQ, the intelligence agencies are seeking to map the entire Internet.
Furthermore, every single end device that is connected to the Internet somewhere in the world — every smartphone, tablet and computer — is to be made visible. Such a map doesn't just reveal one treasure. There are millions of them. The breathtaking mission is described in a Treasure Map presentation from the documents of the former intelligence service employee Edward Snowden which SPIEGEL has seen. It instructs analysts to "map the entire Internet — Any device, anywhere, all the time." Treasure Map allows for the creation of an "interactive map of the global Internet" in "near real-time," the document notes. Employees of the so-called "FiveEyes" intelligence agencies from Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, which cooperate closely with the American agency NSA, can install and use the program on their own computers. One can imagine it as a kind of Google Earth for global data traffic, a bird's eye view of the planet's digital arteries.
Furthermore, every single end device that is connected to the Internet somewhere in the world — every smartphone, tablet and computer — is to be made visible. Such a map doesn't just reveal one treasure. There are millions of them. The breathtaking mission is described in a Treasure Map presentation from the documents of the former intelligence service employee Edward Snowden which SPIEGEL has seen. It instructs analysts to "map the entire Internet — Any device, anywhere, all the time." Treasure Map allows for the creation of an "interactive map of the global Internet" in "near real-time," the document notes. Employees of the so-called "FiveEyes" intelligence agencies from Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, which cooperate closely with the American agency NSA, can install and use the program on their own computers. One can imagine it as a kind of Google Earth for global data traffic, a bird's eye view of the planet's digital arteries.
Ok say they get into every ISP's network...
how are they going to monitor every device? pings? imagine the traffic overhead for that?
will the NSA have to pay to be in the "fast-lane"?
what about Dynamic IP's ? how often will they monitor those changes?
It's not a typo if you understood the meaning!
Depends on the phone used, telco and gov. Just pressing off might be the only option with some tame telco products. Removing a battery might be an option with other telco products.
A gov or mil may wish to map out the path taken by a member of the press A person turns their phone off in the same area and then both phones are turned on again moving away from each other later?
Kind of easy to track the members of the press still covering gov and mil stories in person per city.
If one person left their phone battery in thats a live malware or telco activated mic in real time. Treasure Map would be fun for the office computer, home computer, any devices on the move.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"