I am reading the crumbs from the beginning and I want to share some things I never understood (Seriously, I don´t understand shit!)…
But with the knowledge from today and the many eyes here and elsewhere, we will maybe find out some stuff, no one could think about in the past!
I read, I share and I hope someone can do something with it!
Crumb 30 - Think xkeysc on steroids. -
Here some stuff I read about, or reading right now… (I have no idea how to redtext words and I don´t like redtext so I use Caps to highilight the Words I connect to other crumbs)
A Look at the Inner Workings of NSA’s XKEYSCORE
Documents provided by NSA whistleblower EDWARD SNOWDEN shed light on the inner workings of XKEYSCORE, one of the most extensive programs of mass surveillance in human history.
XKEYSCORE is a piece of Linux software that is typically deployed on RED HAT servers. It uses the APACHE web server and stores collected data in MySQL databases.
JOHN ADAMS, former security lead and senior operations engineer for TWITTER, says that one of the most interesting things about XKEYSCORE’s architecture is “that they were able to achieve so much success with such a poorly designed system.
Sometimes the GENESIS programming language, which largely relies on Boolean logic, regular expressions and a set of simple functions, isn’t powerful enough to do the complex pattern-matching required to detect certain types of traffic. In these cases, as one slide puts it, “Power users can drop in to C++ to express themselves.” AppIDs or fingerprints that are written in C++ are called microplugins.
https://theintercept.com/2015/07/02/look-under-hood-xkeyscore/
Pdf I will never understand…
https://www.eff.org/files/2015/07/06/20150701-intercept-xks_for_counter_cne.pdf