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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: August 19, 2016) In June last year the Snowden-leaks started with the disclosure of the PRISM -program. For many people it stands for NSA surveillance in general because they often have still no idea what PRISM is actually about. Therefore, this article presents almost everything we know about the PRISM program, combining information from my earlier postings and from other media and government sources. It shows that PRISM is not about bulk or mass surveillance, but for collecting communications of specifically identified foreign targets. NSA also has no "direct access" to the servers of companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google - it's actually a unit of the FBI that picks up data related to specific identifiers. In total, ca. 227 million internet communications are collected under the PRISM program each year, contributing to reports about counter-intelligence, terrorism and weapons proliferation. Anually, NSA analysts write more than 20.000 PRISM-based repor...