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(UPDATED: May 15, 2017) On December 1, Wikileaks published 90 gigabytes of classified documents from the German parliamentary commission that investigates NSA spying and the cooperation between NSA and the German foreign intelligence service BND. The documents include 125 files from BND, 33 from the security service BfV and 72 from the information security agency BSI. It should be noted though that all documents are from the lowest classification level and lots of them are just formal letters, copies of press reports and duplications within e-mail threads. Nonetheless, the files also provide interesting new details, for example about the German classification system, BND's internal structure, the way they handled the Snowden-revelations and the use of XKEYSCORE. - BND classifications - BND organization - XKEYSCORE - - PRISM - BOUNDLESSINFORMANT - Cooperation in Afghanistan - - Intelligence Sharing - Cyber security - Index - These topics will be updated or topics will be a...

(Updated: December 3, 2016) Over the past few years we learned a lot about Germany's foreign intelligence service BND , although not from leaks, but from the public hearings of the parliamentary commission that investigates NSA spying operations and its cooperation with German agencies. Recently however a secret government report was leaked to German media, which not only identifies violations of the data protection act but also reveals the codenames for several BND systems and the fact that BND uses the American XKEYSCORE system not only for analysis, but also for collection purposes. Here, the new information from the secret report is combined with things we know from earlier sources and reportings. - A secret report - The SUSLAG liaison office - Selectors provided by NSA: TND and SCRABBLE       - BND's selector database: PBDB - Operations SMARAGD and ZABBO - Metadata analysis: VERAS - Analysis and collection: XKEYSCORE - Integrated analysis: MIRA 4 - Legal d...

Last Monday, the website The Intercept started publishing larger batches of documents from the Snowden trove, so they can now also be examined by the public. It's a new phase after previously documents were generally disclosed as part of journalistic reports, but the number of such publications steadily declined over the last two years. For how it was to work with the Snowden documents can be learned from an interesting interview with two journalists from the German Magazine Der Spiegel. They not only published a whole range of articles based upon the Top Secret NSA documents, but also a book which is much more informative than that of Glenn Greenwald. The interview with Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark from Der Spiegel, as well as with Svea Eckert from the German broadcaster NDR, was part of the Network Research ( Netzwerk Recherche ) annual conference, which was held on July 3 and 4, 2015: Interview with Marcel Rosenbach, Holger Stark and Svea Eckert, July 2015 (in German) ...