According to edward snowden, a former CIA employee, the "Prism" eavesdropping program began in the Bush era in 2007. American intelligence agencies have been doing data mining in nine American Internet companies, analyzing personal contact information and actions from audio, video, pictures, emails, documents and connection information. There are 10 kinds of monitoring: information mail, instant message, video, photo, stored data, voice chat, file transfer, video conference, login time and details of social network data, including two secret monitoring items, one is to monitor the phone call records of the monitor, and the other is to monitor the network activities of the monitor. On the evening of July 1, 2065438, Wikileaks revealed that edward snowden, the leaker of the "Prism Gate" incident in the United States, sought political asylum in 19 countries after applying for asylum in Ecuador and Iceland. On September 28th, 20 13, the internal supervision department of the National Security Agency (NSA) reported that in the past 10 years, at least 12 employees of NSA abused the secret monitoring system and used the government's secret investigation tools to monitor important people in personal relationships, including former or current spouses or partners and relatives.
At the request of the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate and Charles grassley, a Republican, the Office of the General Inspectorate of NSA disclosed the abuse of power by NSA employees since 2003. These monitored people are both Americans and foreigners. The way these employees monitor them is to use their work to secretly monitor emails and phone calls.
According to the data of the General Audit Office of NSA, in 2005, a soldier of NSA inquired about his ex-girlfriend's six mailboxes on the first day of entering the receipt collection system. The investigation also found that from 1998 to 2003, a male employee of NAS abused the NSA database to spy on the phone numbers of nine foreign ladies and collected the communication of an American twice.
Of these 12 violations, at least 6 have been handed over to the Ministry of Justice, but some violators have resigned or retired before being punished. Since Snowden, a former NSA employee, exposed the secret monitoring project of the US government, NSA has been widely reviewed and severely criticized by the outside world. Hack into Yahoo! Google's data center secretly obtains user information and monitors the Pope.
The US Security Bureau was exposed to cooperate with British intelligence agencies to invade Yahoo! Google's data center secretly obtains user information and monitors the Pope. Through a secret plan called Muscle, the US National Security Bureau was manipulated by the intelligence agencies of the United States and Britain to invade the data centers of Google and Yahoo all over the world and obtain hundreds of millions of user data and communication records. In this regard, the White House said that it did not know about this incident.
Italian magazine Panorama said that before and after Pope Francis I was elected, he was monitored by the National Security Bureau of the United States, and the National Security Bureau also monitored the electronic communication of the Vatican. However, the US National Security Bureau denied the Italian magazine Panorama's report that it had monitored the Pope.
Keith Alexander, director of the US National Security Agency, said that it was "wrong" for the media to report that the US National Security Agency collected millions of European citizens' intelligence, which was collected by European intelligence agencies and secretly provided to the US.
French and Italian officials refused to respond to Alexander's statement. The statement that call data is collected by European intelligence agencies may make European allies who accuse the United States lose face. James Lewis, a former US official in the State Council, claimed that the actions of the United States did not deviate from international norms, but were just "routine". 20 1465438+1October14 Media reported that the National Security Agency of the United States has implanted software in nearly 654.38+million computers around the world, which can monitor the activities of these computers or launch cyber attacks. Before 20 14, the national security bureau started a technology to obtain data from computers that have taken protective measures or are not connected to the internet by radio waves.
Through channels such as "spies, computer manufacturers or unsuspecting users", the National Security Bureau installs the miniature circuit board or USB memory card with this software into the target computer, and then obtains the data in the computer by receiving the radio waves sent by these devices. The software can also be used to launch a network attack on the target computer.
According to the National Security Bureau, this technology is intended for "active defense", targeting the military of some countries, drug trafficking groups, intra-EU trade organizations, and computers of American counter-terrorism partners such as Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan. This technology is not used in America. Edward snowden, the exposer of the "Prism" intelligence surveillance scandal, mentioned some contents of the above computer intrusion project in the secret documents previously disclosed. German "Der Spiegel" weekly website reported on March 22: The US National Security Agency monitors China leaders and enterprises.
The United States launched a large-scale cyber attack on China, targeting China leaders and Huawei. The document provided by edward snowden, a former employee of the National Security Agency, shows this point.
The targets attacked by US intelligence agencies include China, the President, Hu Jintao, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, banks and telecommunications companies.
In particular, the National Security Bureau of the United States has made great efforts to monitor Huawei, the second largest supplier of communication equipment in the world. In early 2009, the bureau launched a large-scale operation against Huawei. Huawei is regarded as one of Cisco's biggest competitors. A special team of the National Security Bureau successfully infiltrated Huawei's computer network and copied1more than 400 customer information and internal training documents used by engineers. 20 15 On March 15, Reuters reported that the Wikimedia Foundation, the operator of Wikipedia, would file a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and the US Department of Justice to challenge the large-scale surveillance project of the US government.