{"id":26763,"date":"2014-07-11T07:41:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T12:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26763"},"modified":"2014-07-11T07:42:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T12:42:30","slug":"welcome-to-the-nsa-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/11\/welcome-to-the-nsa-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the NSA family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.privacysurgeon.org\/blog\/incision\/a-leaked-nsa-memo-reveals-the-agencys-darkest-secret\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Privacy Surgeon<\/em><\/a> recently acquired a leaked National Security Agency memo to new staff and contractors:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The intelligence world is a complex place. Think of it as if it was your family (we know the sort of families you come from, so make of that what you will). Here\u2019s a quick international reference guide so you know what to think.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>&#8211; <strong>Just about all African governments arise from at least some orchestrated corruption<\/strong>. Before you target anyone, check with the CIA to see if they were involved. If they were involved, intensify the surveillance and make sure NSA Command has all the data for \u201cdiplomatic\u201d purposes (i.e. Beltway diplomacy).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; <strong>Anyone in Central or South America is a justifiable target<\/strong>. If they\u2019re in Central America, drugs will be somewhere on the horizon \u2013 even if it\u2019s a third generation connection. If they\u2019re further south, most will be US-skeptic. Drugs plus US-Skeptic equals democratic instability, and we\u2019re here to protect democracy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; <strong>The Russian Federation is more complex<\/strong>. At a political level there\u2019s a lot of grandstanding. Operationally though, we share intelligence with Russia on anyone who is a mutual target (and that, ironically, includes most of the Russian Federation). China is our main mutual target because it refuses to share the economic intelligence data it gathers about either Russia or America. All of us, however, have agreed to share intelligence data on the French.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; <strong>The Middle East. Just collect it<\/strong>. That data is always useful. Avoid Israel though. We already have a cross-collateralization deal with MOSAD to leverage the value-added of locally intercepted data. And besides, if they catch you snooping on their turf they\u2019ll just endlessly whine about it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that\u2019s about it. We hope you have a great time here, and always remember that you now have friends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to Bruce Schneier for the link.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>This Leaked NSA Memo Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity: Okay, it&#39;s a parody: The Russian Federation is more &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/bBQbSo0VvF\">http:\/\/t.co\/bBQbSo0VvF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Schneier Blog (@schneierblog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/schneierblog\/statuses\/487563208152981504\">July 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Privacy Surgeon recently acquired a leaked National Security Agency memo to new staff and contractors: The intelligence world is a complex place. Think of it as if it was your family (we know the sort of families you come from, so make of that what you will). Here\u2019s a quick international reference guide so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,57,13],"tags":[913,463],"class_list":["post-26763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-humour","category-usa","tag-nsa","tag-parody"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6XF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26765,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26763\/revisions\/26765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}