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This document discusses the NSA's collection of email address books and efforts to optimize its signals intelligence (SSO) collection. It notes that address books now account for about 22% of SSO's major accesses, up from 12% previously. The NSA has enabled collection of address books from several intelligence collection sites. The document advocates storing less unnecessary data, increasing data variety, and shifting to a philosophy of "memorializing what is needed" rather than collecting everything possible. It provides examples of efforts to reduce content stored in long-term repositories by 20% while keeping more useful data available at collection sites.

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Nsa Scissors 2

This document discusses the NSA's collection of email address books and efforts to optimize its signals intelligence (SSO) collection. It notes that address books now account for about 22% of SSO's major accesses, up from 12% previously. The NSA has enabled collection of address books from several intelligence collection sites. The document advocates storing less unnecessary data, increasing data variety, and shifting to a philosophy of "memorializing what is needed" rather than collecting everything possible. It provides examples of efforts to reduce content stored in long-term repositories by 20% while keeping more useful data available at collection sites.

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SSO Collection Optimization


Core SSO Team:

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Address Books
! Email address books for most major webmail are collected as stand-alone sessions (no content present*) ! Address books are repetitive, large, and metadata-rich ! Data is stored multiple times (MARINA/MAINWAY, PINWALE, CLOUDs) ! Fewer and fewer address books attributable to users, targets ! Address books account for ~ 22% of SSOs major accesses (up from ~ 12% in August)
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Address Books
! Enabled in SCISSORS for various SSO sites:
! ! ! ! ! JPMQ (metadata: QMPJ) - DS-200B (MUSCULAR) DGOT (metadata: TOGD) - US-3171 (DANCINGOASIS) DGOD (metadata: DOGD) - US-3171 (DANCINGOASIS) SPNN (metadata: NNPS) - US-3180 (SPINNERET) EGLP (metadata: PLGE) - US-3145 (MOONLIGHTPATH) 29 Feb 2012 13 Mar 2012 13 Mar 2012 03 May 2012 08 May 2012

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Address Books

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Address Books

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Selector Detasks

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So What?
! Store less of the wrong data ! 20% reduction (so far) in content to long-term repositories ! Data still resides at site for SIGDEV ! Increase data variety ! Hole left by wrong data filled with more right data ! More signals and case notations can be tasked at site ! Shifting collection philosophy at NSA ! Memorialize what you need versus Order one of everything off the menu and eat what you want
WIKI: https://wiki.nsa.ic.gov/wiki/Collection_Optimization XKEYSCORE: fingerprint/defeats/atrouter and fingerprint/defeats/atxks TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORN

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Collection Optimization
7 Pages - Contributed by Matt DeLong, Washington Post - Oct 14, 2013

This is another presentation on problems with NSA overcollection.

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