Digital Story Annotated Bibliography

"National Security Agency / Central Security Service - Top Banner." The NSA/CSS Mission. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.

The National Security Agency’s mission statement

“The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) leads the U.S. Government in cryptology that encompasses both Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Information Assurance (IA) products and services, and enables Computer Network Operations (CNO) in order to gain a decision advantage for the Nation and our allies under all circumstances.”

When the NSA was initially formed on December 4^th of 1998 The roles of this organization where;

1.      “Collect (including through clandestine means), process, analyze, produce, and disseminate signals intelligence information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes to support national and departmental missions;”

2.      “Act as the National Manager for National Security Systems as established in law and policy, and in this capacity be responsible to the Secretary of Defense and to the Director, National Intelligence;”

3.      “Prescribe security regulations covering operating practices, including the transmission, handling, and distribution of signals intelligence and communications security material within and among the elements under control of the Director of the National Security Agency, and exercise the necessary supervisory control to ensure compliance with the regulations.”

IN 2008 on July 31^st the NSA was granted the rights by the government to;

1.      “Align EO12333 with the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004;”

2.      “Implement additional recommendations of the 9/11 and WMD Commissions;”

3.      “Further integrate the Intelligence Community and clarify and strengthen the role of the DNI as the head of the Community;”

4.      “Maintain or strengthen privacy and civil liberties protections”

I chose to copy and paste this information directly from the NSA website because I want to exactly show what the NSA claims to be. I will start my digital story off including this information, most likely word for word. To give viewers who don’t have an education on what the NSA is an idea of what they are all about and what they claim to be. After my audience has an idea of the jobs the NSA are supposed to peruse I will then move into issues that people have with NSA spying.

"Three Leaks, Three Weeks, and What We've Learned About the US Government's Other Spying Authority: Executive Order 12333 | Electronic Frontier Foundation." Electronic Frontier Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Nov. 2013. 

·         The changes made to the Executive Order In 2008 allows the National Security Agency to secretly steal data from companies such as Yahoo and google. This also includes fiber optic connections between company servers at various parts around the world. This allows the NSA to obtain millions of records each month including personal data such as audio, video, text and pictures. Even if the user has a block or a password on the information and is secured by the website, the NSA can still hack their information.

·         The NSA uses the excuse of protecting us from foreign threats by collecting our address books, buddy lists, calling records, phone calls, emails, and storing everything in a database that can be viewed by the NSA. They can get away with this because they twist the rights of the Executive Order 12333. This order relies on the Executive oversight, the problem is that the Congress isn’t concerned about overseeing the actions of the NSA.

·         The NSA uses the “supposed authority the order grants to collect information” act in the EO12333 to hack into data center links, Americans address books and contacts. They can do this because they can consider this information foreign data.  The definition of this act is incredibly broad and can easily be twisted.

·         The guidelines for “Supplemental Procedures and Guidelines for Governing Metadata Analysis” allows the NSA to create secret guidelines without the approval of congress, for when and how the NSA can use Americans information outside of the oversight of the FISA court. The NSA uses metadata to create a social network of Americans for the “foreign intelligence purpose”. There are no restrictions on the use of this data.

·         The foreign intelligence definition is loose and allows the NSA to create any limit they would like on collecting internal data from Google and Yahoo. Since databases such as Google and yahoo take place overseas the NSA believes that they are entitled to presume communications through them as foreign.

Through this information I wish to give my audience revelations they can put together to show them that NSA can collect any and all data that they wish to. I wish to express to them that even innocent Americans information can be hacked by NSA without reasoning. I hope that it shows my audience that this needs to be stopped and make them wonder what else they have collected. I wish to show my audience how the NSA uses laws policies and procedures to get around the constitution.

Press, The Associated. "N.H.L. ROUNDUP; Flyers Win Their Third in a Row." The New York Times. The New York Times, 31 Dec. 2007. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.

I want to inform my viewer that hacking into personal information can tell the government a lot about a person thinks like;

·         Phone and email logs

o    allow analysts to identify peoples friends and associates

o   Detect where they were at certain times

o   Gives clues to religious and political affiliations

o   Pick up sensitive information

§  Calls to a psychologist

§  Late-night messages to a spouse or partner

I want to make my audience realize that mediadata can be very revealing.

""We Don’t Live in a Free Country": Jacob Appelbaum on Being Target of Widespread Gov’t Surveillance." Democracy Now! N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Nov. 2013.

This video and article shows a real life experience of someone who was targeted by the NSA I hope to display it to show my audience a real life experience of NSA hacking.

Basically Jacob Applebaulm life became difficult due to NSA hacking, he has been target and detained several times at airports, sometimes met at the jetway by men with guns. He was interrogated by men that wanted to know his political views. They didn’t care about terrorism or drugs which would be valid reasons for interrogation.