r/NSALeaks • • Oct 23 '13

Self Post NSALeaks as of 10/22/13 Chronological order

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  • Tuesday 22 October 2013

Obama calls Hollande in attempt to soothe tensions stemming from NSA spying on French telecommunications

  • Monday 21 October 2013

Snowden leaks: France summons US envoy over NSA surveillance claims - Demand follows claims in Le Monde that US agency has been intercepting phone calls of French citizens on 'a massive scale'

  • Sunday 20 October 2013

NSA Hacked Email Account of Mexican President "The NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican govet for years. It hacked into the president's public email account and gained deep insight into policy making and the political system."

  • Friday 18 October 2013

Edward Snowden: I brought no leaked NSA documents to Russia; US whistleblower says he handed over all digital material to journalists he worked with in Hong Kong

  • Thursday 17 October 2013

UK launches parliamentary inquiry into Guardian’s NSA leaks

  • Wednesday 16 October 2013

Snowden leaks: David Cameron urges committee to investigate Guardian; PM says leaks have damaged national security and suggests MPs could 'examine issue and make further recommendations'

  • Wednesday 16 October 2013

NSA files: Australian spies scooped up thousands of email accounts to help US

  • Tuesday 15 October 2013

Exclusive: Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization; the reporter who broke the NSA story promises “a momentous new venture.” A “very substantial new media outlet” with serious backing, he says

  • Monday 14 October 2013

Greenwald on Snowden Leaks: The Worst Is Yet to Come

  • Monday 14 October 2013

NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally

  • Monday 14 October 2013

"Not a single byte should leave Germany" - Communication giants put forward plan to combat NSA spies with German-only network hubs

  • Sunday 13 October 2013

New York Times says UK tried to get it to hand over Snowden documents

  • Sunday 13 October 2013

GCHQ accused of monitoring privileged emails between lawyers and clients; allegation relates to eight Libyan nationals and comes in wake of Guardian's revelations about GCHQ and Tempora programme

  • Saturday 12 October 2013

Snowden: US govt allows top officials to lie to Congress, yet prosecutes truth-tellers - [4:02]

  • Friday 11 October 2013

PATRIOT Act Author Says James Clapper Should Be Fired And Prosecuted; Plans Law To Stop NSA Overreach

  • Friday 11 October 2013

Edward Snowden speaks about NSA programmes at Sam Adams award presentation in Moscow - [0:54]

  • Friday 11 October 2013

Skype under investigation in Luxembourg over link to NSA. Ten years ago, the calling service had a reputation as a tool for evading surveillance but now it is under scrutiny for covertly passing data to government agencies

  • Thursday 10 October 2013

Edward Snowden: first official photo appears since Russian asylum granted, meeting former US government officials hours after father arrives in Moscow.

  • Thursday 10 October 2013

Patriot Act author prepares bill to put NSA bulk collection 'out of business'

  • Thursday 10 October 2013

The Daily Mail describes the Guardian as 'The paper that helps Britain's enemies' regarding the NSA revelations. These are the responses from the world's leading Editors.

  • Thursday 10 October 2013

Edward Snowden's father arrives in Moscow 'hoping to see son': Lon Snowden lands at Sheremetyevo airport and meets lawyer for intelligence contractor who exposed huge NSA data trawl

  • Wednesday 09 October 2013

Lavabit founder offered to log users' metadata if FBI paid him $3,500: Ladar Levison, the secure email service's founder, made the offer in an effort to safeguard passwords and prevent the FBI from mining incoming data

  • Wednesday 09 October 2013

MI5 chief's condemnation of Snowden GCHQ leaks backed by David Cameron: PM endorses spy chief but Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger warns MI5 'cannot be only voice in this debate'

  • Tuesday 08 October 2013

How The NSA Deploys Malware: An In-Depth Look at the New Revelations

  • Tuesday 08 October 2013

Brazil accuses Canada of spying after NSA leaks: Canadian ambassador summoned to explain claims spy agency collected Brazilian energy ministry internet and phone data

  • Tuesday 08 October 2013

Australian government withheld knowledge of PRISM program; FOI request confirms Attorney General's Department prepared a secret ministerial briefing in March

  • Monday 07 October 2013

Obama administration decides NSA spying is ‘essential,’ but oversight of NSA is not

  • Monday 07 October 2013

Canada spying in Brazil: more to come, Greenwald promises; journalist Glenn Greenwald says he has more documents regarding Canada's spying in Brazil

  • Monday 07 October 2013

National Insecurity: How The NSA Has Put The Internet And Our Security At Risk

  • Sunday 6 October 2013

German BND (NSA equiv) has deal to tap ISPs at major Internet Exchange; spy agency stays mum on how it's distinguishing domestic vs. foreign traffic (Der Spiegel via Google Translate)

  • Sunday 06 October 2013

Prism and Tempora: the cabinet was told nothing of the surveillance state's excesses; was the Home Office deliberately misleading ministers by asking for powers that we now know GCHQ already had?

  • Sunday 06 October 2013

Cabinet was told nothing about GCHQ spying programmes, says Chris Huhne: Ex-minister says he was in 'utter ignorance' of Prism and Tempora and calls for tighter oversight of security services

  • Saturday 05 October 2013

NSA report on the Tor encrypted network

  • Friday 04 October 2013

Why the NSA's attacks on the internet must be made public

  • Friday 04 October 2013

Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity

  • Friday 04 October 2013

NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users

  • Friday 04 October 2013

NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users


r/NSALeaks • • Apr 09 '14

[Interview/Self Post] Snowden to NSA: Go ahead, deny I tried to raise the alarm legally | Speaking to Vanity Fair, the whistle-blower says that before leaking secret documents, he contacted people within the spy agency about its surveillance practices -- and that email records will prove it.

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r/NSALeaks • • Sep 12 '13

Self Post NSALeaks as of 9/12/13 but in Chronological order.

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All Most credit goes to /u/NiceTryNSA ,/u/Iulianus, and /u/stumped13 who have provided all the links in this sub. I Have used it several times in the last few days and decided it needed this summary of posts in the order in which they were published for easy reading. I am sure this has been done elsewhere and with more information on other subs. Like This one I left out of this list. I'll try and keep adding to it as new posts are added.

Note: The last one on the list does not seem to be there anymore. The time it took to edit the list it was deleted. I left it on because I can't see anything wrong with the content.

EDIT: Pastebin Links Added for easy copy/paste

With Reddit Syntax

Simple http links

EDIT: 9/16/13 Reversed the order of the links. Placing the most recent on top for easier editing as time goes on. This is now linked in the wiki.


  • Monday 16 September 2013

The NSA has hacked telecommunications firm Belgacom, targeting information concerning the principal organs of the EU in Brussels via /u/Iulianus

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  • Sunday 15 September 2013

'Follow the Money': The NSA is interested in international payments processed by companies including Visa, SPIEGEL has learned. It has even set up its own financial database to track money flows through a "tailored access operations" division.

  • Thursday 12 September 2013

Obama's NSA surveillance review panel did not discuss changes, attendees say "Pair say meeting was dominated by tech firms' interests and session did not broach the topic of changes to data collection"

  • Wednesday 11 September 2013

NSA and Israeli intelligence: memorandum of understanding – full document. Top-secret document shows how intelligence being shared with Israel would not be filtered in advance by NSA analysts to remove US communications

  • Wednesday 11 September 2013

NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel: Secret deal places no legal limits on use of data by Israelis, only official US government communications protected

  • Monday 9 September 2013

NSA accused of spying on Brazilian oil company Petrobras: Accusations that NSA is conducting intelligence-gathering operations that go beyond its core mission of national security

  • Saturday 7 September 2013

Privacy Scandal: NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data. SPIEGEL has learned from internal NSA documents that the US intelligence agency has the capability of tapping user data from the iPhone, devices using Android as well as BlackBerry, a system previously believed to be highly secure.

  • Saturday 7 September 2013

Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011

  • Thursday 5 September 2013

NSA: classification guide for cryptanalysis. Guide reveals that NSA 'obtains cryptographic details of commercial cryptographic information security systems through industry relationships'

  • Thursday 5 September 2013

Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security. NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records; $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products.

  • Thursday 5 September 2013

Project Bullrun – classification guide to the NSA's decryption program. Guide for NSA employees and contractors on Bullrun outlines its goals – and reveals that the agency has capabilities against widely-used online protocols such as HTTPS

  • Thursday 5 September 2013

Sigint – how the NSA collaborates with technology companies. Document shows how 'signals intelligence', or Sigint, 'actively engages US and foreign IT industries to covertly influence and/or overtly leverage their commercial products' designs'

  • Monday 2 September 2013

Top-secret U.S. intelligence files show new levels of distrust of Pakistan

  • Monday 2 September 2013

NSA 'spied on communications' of Brazil and Mexico presidents. Brazil's Globo news program reports revelations based on documents obtained by Glenn Greenwald from Edward Snowden

*Sunday 1 September 2013

U.S. intelligence agencies spend millions to hunt for insider threats, document shows

  • Sunday 1 September 2013

Success Story: NSA Targeted French Foreign Ministry

  • Saturday 31 August 2013

Snowden Document: NSA Spied On Al Jazeera Communications

  • Friday 30 August 2013

U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, documents show

  • Thursday 29 August 2013

NSA paying U.S. companies for access to communications networks

  • Thursday 29 August 2013

U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary

  • Monday 26 August 2013

Codename 'Apalachee': How America Spies on Europe and the UN

  • Sunday 25 August 2013

NSA hacked UN video calls as part of surveillance program, claims report.

  • Friday 23 August 2013

NSA officers... on several occasions have channelled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests

  • Thursday 22 August 2013

NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies. Top-secret files show first evidence of financial relationship; Prism companies include Google and Yahoo, says NSA. Costs were incurred after 2011 Fisa court ruling.

  • Thursday 15 August 2013

What to say, and not to say, to 'our overseers': This document tells NSA analysts how to explain their targeting decisions without giving "extraneous information" to "our FAA overseers."

  • Thursday 15 August 2013

NSA report on privacy violations in the first quarter of 2012: this is the full executive summary, with names redacted by The Post, of a classified internal report on breaches of NSA privacy rules and legal restrictions.

  • Friday 9 August 2013

NSA loophole allows warrant less search for US citizens' emails and phone calls. Exclusive: Spy agency has secret backdoor permission to search databases for individual Americans' communications

  • Friday 2 August 2013

BT and Vodafone among Telecom companies passing details to GCHQ: Fears of customer backlash over breach of privacy as firms give GCHQ unlimited access to their undersea cables


r/NSALeaks • • Feb 27 '21

Can whichever twat who is going through and reprting every fucking post just stop. It's pointless, they don't disappear I just have to fucking review them. They're still there. Fuck the fuck off!!!

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r/NSALeaks • • Jan 17 '14

Obama's NSA 'reforms' are little more than a PR attempt to mollify the public | Obama is draping the banner of change over the NSA status quo. Bulk surveillance that caused such outrage will remain in place - Green Greenwald

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r/NSALeaks • • Nov 18 '15

U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks, Regardless of Snowden Leaks

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r/NSALeaks • • Jul 25 '14

[Press Freedom] Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Kept His Oath Better Than Anyone in the NSA | That sort of civic courage should inspire other Americans to follow suit, he said.

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r/NSALeaks • • Jan 14 '14

President’s goal for NSA reform — no more Edward Snowdens

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r/NSALeaks • • Oct 25 '16

[Subverting Silicon Valley] AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit. New documents reveal the telecom giant is doing NSA-style work for law enforcement—without a warrant—and earning millions of dollars a year from taxpayers.

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r/NSALeaks • • Jul 13 '15

[Sourced Leak] The Latest Snowden Leak Is Devastating to NSA Defenders | The agency collected and stored intimate chats, photos, and emails belonging to innocent Americans—and secured them so poorly that reporters can now browse them at will.

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r/NSALeaks • • Jan 07 '14

US senators propose bill to shut off NSA’s water supply in California

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r/NSALeaks • • Nov 07 '13

Google has started encrypting traffic between data centers, effectively halting joint surveillance by NSA and GCHQ

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r/NSALeaks • • Apr 06 '15

[Interview/Self Post] Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance | There are very few government checks on what America’s sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA, the balance between privacy and security, and dick-pics.

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r/NSALeaks • • Nov 29 '14

[Press Freedom] U.K. police force accidentally admits it spied on journalists who had not committed any crimes, using anti-terror laws. Asks paper to delete article covering this once it realized what it had done. Newspaper refuses.

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r/NSALeaks • • Nov 21 '17

The FCC is about to kill net neutrality. We’re protesting nationwide on Dec 7th to stop them.

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tldr: The FCC is about to kill net neutrality. We’re protesting nationwide on Dec 7th to stop them. Head over to http://www.verizonprotests.com/ for more info.

WHAT’S HAPPENING? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just announced its plan to slash net neutrality rules, allowing ISPs like Verizon to block apps, slow websites, and charge fees to control what you see & do online. They vote December 14th. People from across the political spectrum are outraged, so we’re planning to protest at Verizon retail stores across the country on December 7, one week before the vote and at the peak of the busy Holiday shopping season. We'll demand that our members of Congress take action to stop Verizon's puppet FCC from killing net neutrality.

WHAT’S NET NEUTRALITY? Net neutrality is the basic principle that has made the Internet into what it is today. It prevents big Internet Service Providers (like Verizon) from charging extra fees, engaging in censorship, or controlling what we see and do on the web by throttling websites, apps, and online services.

WHY VERIZON STORES? The new chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, is a former top lawyer for Verizon, and the company has been spending millions on lobbying and lawsuits to kill net neutrality so they can gauge us all for more money. By protesting at Verizon stores, we’re shining light on the corruption and demanding that our local do something about it. Only Congress has the power to stop Verizon's puppet FCC, so at the protests we'll be calling and tweeting at legislators, and in cities where it's possible we'll march from Verizon stores to lawmakers offices.

WHAT ARE OUR DEMANDS? Ajit Pai is clearly still working for Verizon, not the public. But he still has to answer to Congress. So we’re calling on our lawmakers to do their job overseeing the FCC and speak out against Ajit Pai’s plan to gut Title II net neutrality protections and give Verizon and other giant ISPs everything on their holiday wishlist.

HOW CAN I JOIN? Click here and you’ll find an interactive map where you can see if there is already a protest planned near you. If not, you can sign up to host one, and we’ll send you materials to make it easy and help you recruit others in your area. These protests will be quick, fun, and 100% legal. If you can’t attend a protest on December 7th, you can still help defend net neutrality by calling your lawmakers and spreading the word on social media. You can also sign up to host a meeting with your members of Congress, or volunteer for our texting team to help turn people out for these protests.


r/NSALeaks • • Sep 12 '14

[Politics/Oversight Failure] US threatened Yahoo with $250,000 daily fine over NSA data refusal. Company releases 1,500 documents from failed suit against NSA over user data requests and cooperation with Prism compliance.

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r/NSALeaks • • Dec 18 '13

NSA's goal is elimination of individual privacy worldwide - Greenwald to EU

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r/NSALeaks • • May 01 '14

[Press Freedom] Snowden: Why hasn’t the Director of National Intelligence been punished for lying to Congress?

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r/NSALeaks • • Feb 08 '14

Edward Snowden has received eight public nominations for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize

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r/NSALeaks • • Jul 14 '14

[Sourced Leak] Greenwald: Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet.

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r/NSALeaks • • Jun 12 '14

[Politics/Oversight Failure] Warrantless cell phone tracking ruled unconstitutional in Federal court. Judges say Americans have an expectation of privacy in their movements and that warrantless tracking violates fourth amendment.

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r/NSALeaks • • Sep 19 '14

[Press Freedom] Nearly half (47%) of students had read or heard little or nothing about the Edward Snowden leaks

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r/NSALeaks • • Mar 07 '14

Snowden: I raised NSA concerns internally over 10 times before going rogue

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r/NSALeaks • • Dec 23 '13

Obama can’t point to a single time the NSA call records program prevented a terrorist attack

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r/NSALeaks • • Mar 28 '15

[Blog/Op-Ed/Editorial] The FBI used to recommend encryption. Now they want to ban it | For years, the agency recommended phone encryption as a defense against criminals. Now, that information has been scrubbed from public view

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