Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 16:48:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: xxxxx[at]efn.org
To: cryptome[at]earthlink.net
Subject: Correcting the US figure
It seems that Greenwald already listed the US DNR total, and since he is looking at better images than I am (I am reading the Hindu's images), I'm inclined to take his total. (though not the interpretation of it, I've gone into the reasons enough times)
"There are no precise figures, but last January Brazil was just behind the United States, which had 2.3 billion phone calls and messages spied."
I have a US aggregate figure from Le Monde (3,095,533,478), Greenwald's rounded DNR figure from O Globo (2,300,000,000), which leaves the approximate US DNI total to be (795,533,478)
The revised DNR figures:
Pakistan: 12.76 billion
Afghanistan: 21.98 billion
India: 6.28 billion
Iraq: 7.8 billion? (blurry image)
Saudi Arabia: 7.8 billion ? (blurry image)
United States: 2.3 billion
Egypt: 1.9 billion ? (blurry image)
Iran: 1.73 billion
Jordan: 1.6 billion
Germany: 361 million
France: 70.2 million
Spain: 61 million
Italy: 46 million
Netherlands: 1.8 million
The rest of the world: Lots and Lots
Total: 124.8 billion.
http://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/eua-espionaram-milhoes-de-mails-ligacoes-de-
brasileiros-8940934#ixzz2jRJ3kGCn
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Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 16:58:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: xxxxx[at]efn.org
To: xxxxx[at]earthlink.net
Subject: While im'm in the business of correcting things.....
Statement from Greenwald's Dismissal of the Dismissal does not match the Article:
"A similar article, using the same set of documents, was published in Brazil's O Globo a week later, reporting the NSA's collection of the data for more than 2 billion calls and emails in Brazil in a single month. Another article, in the Indian daily the Hindu, reported on bulk collection of the data of calls in India based on the same document set."
http://ggsidedocs.blogspot.com/
Whereas the article in question actually states "Não há números precisos, mas em janeiro passado o Brasil ficou pouco atrás dos Estados Unidos, que teve 2,3 bilhões de telefonemas e mensagens espionados." ( There are no precise figures, but last January Brazil was just behind the United States, which had 2.3 billion phone calls and messages spied.)
http://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/eua-espionaram-milhoes-de-mails-ligacoes-de-
brasileiros-8940934#ixzz2jRPq0U9s
In the first instance it would seem that 2 billion was the Aggregate Brazil total (calls and emails), but in fact it was the US DNR total (calls and text messages).
I caught this because i was trying to reconcile the color of Brazil vs Germany, with Germany apparently having a lower total but a more intense color.
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29 October 2013. A explicates now the numbers below were derived from NSA Boundless Informant images and responds to press reports:
2013-1481.htm NSA Boundless Informant Images Explicated October 29, 2013_____
24 October 2013. A sends:
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 00:29:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: xxxxx[at]efn.org
To: xxxxx[at]earthlink.net
Subject: Translating Telephone metadata records to phone calls.
I feel a need to explain that 1 call metadata record does not necessarily correspond to 1 phone call. There is no easy way to determine the number of tapped phone calls from the number of metadata records captured. The number of metadata records generated by each phone call will depend on several factors. Here are a few:
1) It is possible for a new record to be generated along each switch along the call's path. 2) Multiple taps on a call's path, will of course generate multiple records for the same call. In a country like Afghanistan or Iraq, you can pretty much count on the entire infrastructure being bugged many times over by multiple means. The same calls therefor get picked up many times. Which is how we get to 20 billion call data records in a country that doesn't make nearly that many calls.In some ways the NSA is it's own worst enemy to say that the reports of 70 million calls in France being logged per month is inaccurate without explaining any of this. However, it isn't really better to say that each call on average generated 3 metadata records which were on average picked up twice apiece (ie: "it's only 11.7 million calls we bugged").
2a) The NSA may have some de-duplication capability, however it is likely not perfect.3) Double counting: If someone in Iran calls someone in Brazil, that call could be picked up in both places, and increase each country's total. If the overall count equals the sum of the individual countries, there is double counting involved in the computation of the total.
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23 October 2013. A sends revised numbers:
NSA Spied 124.8 Billion Phone Calls in a Month
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:08:34 -0700
From: xxxxx[at]efn.org>
To:xxxxxx[at]earthlink.net
Subject: Thanks for publishing so quick, but the total telephone metadata records is a LOT higher than 540 million
I did not include the total in my original email, because does not reflect the totality of the NSA's operation. If we take a look at the Map view, we actually have the true total: 124.8 BILLION.
The map view seems to be captured on Jan 8, 2013, and captures reflects the last 30 days, just like the org views. (Declassify date: Jan 1, 2032), and is giving is some totals. There ought to be an Org view for each of the countries on the map view. According to the FAQ, the org views appear to have the ability to drill down further than we've seen so far. The caveat here is the the FAQ warns that the totals on the Org and map views are not the same, be that as it may, we still should have some idea based on the published images.
So the Real bottom line is:
Pakistan: 12.76 Billion
Afghanistan: 21.98 Billion
India: 6.28 billion
Iraq: 7.8 billion? (blurry image)
Saudi Arabia: 7.8 billion ? (blurry image)
United States: 3 Billion? (blurry image)
Egypt: 1.9 Billion ? (blurry image)
Iran: 1.73 Billion
Jordan: 1.6 Billion
Germany: 361 Million
France: 70.2 Million
Spain: 61 Million
Italy: 46 Million
Netherlands: 1.8 Million
The rest of the world: Lots and Lots
Total: 124.8 billion.
Sources:
http://cryptome.org/2013/10/nsa-boundless-informant.pdf
http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/08/boundless-informant-nsa-full-text
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-among-top-targets-of-spying-by-nsa/article5157526.ece
22 October 2013 NSA Spied 540 Million Phone Calls in a Month
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:25:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: xxxxxx[at]efn.org
To: xxxxxx[at]earthlink.net
Subject: Beneath the blackouts on "close access SIGADs" in LeMonde, etc.
I enclose a screen-capture from the program "Bom Dia Brasil" that shows more of the Close Access Sigad Document, in addition, "The Hindu" has described, though not shown 9 additional lines. They ought to looks something like this (minus the SIGAD suffix and Covername columns) that are not described):
Target/Country ........ Location.... Mission
India/UN .............. New York... HIGHLANDS
India/UN .............. New York... LIFESAVER
India/UN .............. New York... VAGRANT
India/UN .............. New York... MAGNETIC
India/Emb.............. Wash, DC....LIFESAVER
India/Emb.............. Wash, DC.... VAGRANT
India/Emb.............. Wash, DC.... MAGNETIC
India/Emb Annex........ Wash, DC.... HIGHLANDS
India/Emb Annex........ Wash, DC.... VAGRANT
It looks to me a lot like the Le Monde stories will follow the path of the Brazilian and Indian stories. It has occurred to me that this same story can also be told for many, many other countries: der Spiegel has already published BOUNDLESSINFORMANT graphs for the following: Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. If we take careful measurements of these graphs, and work out the appropriate scaling, we can determine how many telephone metadata records we have in each of these countries over the same 30 day period (DNR). The accuracy will be plus or minus 1 pixel, scaled appropriately. I have enclosed my chart.
The bottom Line:
Germany: 361 Million
France: 70 Million
Spain: 61 Million
Italy: 46 Million
Netherlands: 1.8 Million
Total: 539.8 Million
Publish if you will, there's nothing here that a person with a spreadsheet, a photo editor, and a lot of time couldn't have worked out, and for that reason, it's not encrypted.
Sources:
http://g1.globo.com/bom-dia-brasil/noticia/2013/07/jornal-o-globo-revela-que-brasil-
teria-sido-espionado-pelos-estados-unidos.html
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/nsa-planted-bugs-at-indian-
missions-in-dc-un/article5164944.ece
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/photo-gallery-nsa-documentation-of-spying-in-
germany-fotostrecke-99672-2.html
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