Pentagon mass surveillance slurped up the world's social media traffic; then they dumped it on a publicly accessible Amazon cloud server

[FGD135]

@anotherone

Ok, so who does signals intelligence in the U.S.?

Everbody does SIGINT. Some do more than others. Some have closer ties to or working relationships with non-US agencies (like Five Eyes, ECHELON, UKUSA Agreement…) than others.

United States Intelligence Community

[p96]

I would be disappointed if they weren’t monitoring public social media chatter. There are a lot of potential interesting signals that could be useful to military preparations… if you can filter out things like Russian disinformation campaigns.

[timrowledge]

It must be Hilario’s lost emails!

Wait, what? Hilario? Damn You Autocockup !

[kelly_anquoe]

“infinite haystacks” is a good band name

[anon41977465]

Can the EU sue the pentagon - I mean America has bases in the EU so there are definitely assets open to forfeit.

[anotherone]

So at least 6 agencies are taking tax money to do the same job? Wonderful.

[Medievalist]

Those are just the ones I personally know for sure - as @FGD135 pointed out, everybody does SIGINT!

[FGD135]