CSE tracks millions of downloads daily: Snowden documents

[Eugene]

Source: CBC News

EXCLUSIVE CSE tracks millions of downloads daily: Snowden documents

Global sites for sharing movies, photos, music targeted in mass anti-terror surveillance

By Amber Hildebrandt, Michael Pereira and Dave Seglins, CBC News Posted: Jan 27, 2015 3:12 PM ET Last Updated: Jan 28, 2015 9:45 AM ET

Canada's electronic spy agency sifts through millions of videos and documents downloaded online every day by people around the world, as part of a sweeping bid to find extremist plots and suspects, CBC News has learned.

Details of the Communications Security Establishment project dubbed "Levitation" are revealed in a document obtained by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and recently released to CBC News.

Under Levitation, analysts with the electronic eavesdropping service can access information on about 10 to 15 million uploads and downloads of files from free websites each day, the document says.

"Every single thing that you do — in this case uploading/downloading files to these sites — that act is being archived, collected and analyzed," says Ron Deibert, director of the University of Toronto-based internet security think-tank Citizen Lab, who reviewed the document.

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[bemildred]

1. And how much of it is porn? They are archiving porn. nt

[jakeXT]

2. It's good to know the sexual preference for a honeypot or blackmailing someone for child porn etc

Edathy pornography affair: The story so far

A criminal investigation into child pornography has turned into a crisis for Germany's new government. It has already cost one minister his post. The question everyone's asking is: Who knew what, and when?

2010

The case started in 2010 when Canadian police began to investigate a global provider of child pornography: Azov Films, based in Toronto, is said to have customers in 94 countries, including Germany.

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Among the ring's customers was Edathy, who is said to have ordered material from the site between 2005 and 2010. The material consisted of pictures of naked boys assumed to be between nine and 14, in various poses, but not involved in sexual activity. The possession of such pictures is not illegal in Germany.

http://www.dw.de/edathy-pornography-affair-the-story-so-far/a-17439048

“Behind Closed Doors”

“As long
as there is espionage, there will be Romeos seducing unsuspecting [targets] with
access to secrets.”
Markus Wolf.


Prostitution and espionage are often referred to as the world’s oldest two professions.
Whilethis might seem simplistic, there is much based on truth. Historically, both women and menhave used charm and charisma as tools for enticing and entrapping their vulnerable counterparts.


http://www.academia.edu/2577766/Behind_Closed_Doors_Sex_Love_and_Espionage_The_Honeypot_Phenomenon