Security News > 2023 > October > New NSA Information from (and About) Snowden

Interesting article about the Snowden documents, including comments from former Guardian editor Ewen MacAskill.

As far as he knows, a copy of the documents is still locked in the New York Times office.

Although the files are in the New York Times office, The Guardian retains responsibility for them.

The NSA listed Cavium, an American semiconductor company marketing Central Processing Units-the main processor in a computer which runs the operating system and applications-as a successful example of a "SIGINT-enabled" CPU supplier.

The NSA compromised lawful Russian interception infrastructure, SORM. The NSA archive contains slides showing two Russian officers wearing jackets with a slogan written in Cyrillic: "You talk, we listen." The NSA and/or GCHQ has also compromised key lawful interception systems.

Among example targets of its mass-surveillance programme, PRISM, the NSA listed the Tibetan government in exile.

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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/new-nsa-information-from-and-about-snowden.html