Australian Joint Defence Facility " southwest of Alice Springs, and the three of the Australian intelligence agency Defence Signals Directorate ( DSD) operated plants " Shoal Bay Receiving Station " in Darwin, " Australian Defence SatelliteĬommunications station " in Geraldton and ' HMAS Harman ' outside of Canberra. The Sydney Morning Herald named four monitoring devices in Australia - the " U.S. The system would be " linear scaling " - that is expandable by simply adding more servers. Internet data can only "short" connection data are stored for about 30 days.ĭata can be moved to other databases and stored longer.Īccording to the presentation from the 2008 XKeyscore then consisted of a composite of more than 700 servers that were distributed to 150 different locations. Targets can be defined by the name, characteristics of the browser, phone numbers or Nickname well as by contact lists in instant messaging.Īn identification by IP address or by means of the language used is also possible, for example, " All queries in German ," a country of the axis of evil.Īlso requests such as " PGP encryption, or VPN connections in and out of Iraq " are mentioned as viable examples.
Its members - the internationally oriented news services from the UK ( GCHQ ), United States (NSA ), Australia (DSD ), Canada ( CSEC ) and New Zealand ( GCSB ) - also known as "Five Eyes".Īccording to the documents XKeyscore is designed specifically for a single " target person " issue with the help of metadata and other data, for example keyword lists by search engines inputs.Īlso, chats and e- mails can be evaluated.Īlso to be buildable in real time a temporary, unfiltered collection of all at all due to that person data.
The publications on XKeyscore are part of the monitoring and espionage in 2013, under which the massive surveillance of the global communications through the United States and the United Kingdom were disclosed.īy XKeyscore publications has become apparent in the context of the UKUSA agreement for the first time participation of Australia and New Zealand. The service itself explains: XKeyscore is "a system for the utilization of Digital Network Intelligence / Analysis Structure ". The reports are based on documents the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The Brazilian newspaper O Globo and the Australian newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald, published on Jfor the first time information and details on the existence and functioning of the system. XKeyscore ( XKS ) is a spy software of the U.S.
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