TRAFFICTHIEF

TRAFFICTHIEF

TRAFFICTHIEF

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Trafficthief (stylized TRAFFICTHIEF) is a database maintained by the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) and operated under the Turbulence program, containing "Meta-data from a subset of tasked strong-selectors,"[1] according to an XKeyscore presentation. An example of a strong selector is an email address. In other words, it would be a database of the metadata associated with names, phone numbers, email addresses, and other identifying information that intelligence services are specifically targeting. Journalist Marc Ambinder speculates the program is a "raw SIGINT viewer for data analysis."[2]

  • A reference to TRAFFICTHIEF in an XKeyscore slide
    A reference to TRAFFICTHIEF in an XKeyscore slide

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  1. [1]
    Greenwald, Glenn (July 31, 2013). "XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'". Retrieved May 20, 2015.
  2. [2]
    Ambinder, Marc (May 20, 2014). "An Educated Guess About How the NSA Is Structured". The Atlantic.com. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
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