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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: July 25, 2017) From the Snowden revelations, the general public learned about the Five Eyes partnership between the signals intelligence agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but details about this cooperation remained shrouded in secrecy. Now, a batch of internal newsletters of the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID), published last August by the website The Intercept, provides new information about various systems for sharing information, metadata, content and reports among the Five Eyes partners. - From BRUSA to Five Eyes - Joint Executive for SIGINT Interoperability (JESI) - Information sharing: IWS - Interoperable access control: PKI - Sharing metadata: MAINWAY - Federated metadata queries: GLOBALREACH - Sharing content: TICKETWINDOW - Sharing end reports: CATAPULT - SIDtoday newsletters From BRUSA to Five Eyes The Five Eyes community grew out of the cooperation between Britain and the United States during W...

(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...