No Keystroke Left Behind

[Robin Landseadel]

The agency’s Dishfire database — nothing happens without a code word  
at the N.S.A. — stores years of text messages from around the world,  
just in case. Its Tracfin collection accumulates gigabytes of credit  
card purchases. The fellow pretending to send a text message at an  
Internet cafe in Jordan may be using an N.S.A. technique code-named  
Polarbreeze to tap into nearby computers. The Russian businessman who  
is socially active on the web might just become food for Snacks, the  
acronym-mad agency’s Social Network Analysis Collaboration Knowledge  
Services, which figures out the personnel hierarchies of organizations  
from texts.

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