Falling Redactions

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Hello world, and welcome to my new blog. It is my purpose to showcase analysis of NSA material, and also to de-redact the same. My blog layout will be simple, a kind of back-to-basics look. The reasons are several-fold, I am not a web designer, and would rather focus on the materal at hand, rather than making things look pretty. Also, this is a way of affirming that there is no funny-business going on with my site, I have also chosen not to forbid directory traversal, there is no point in hacking. I do not keep logs, nor have access to any logs that my service provider may be keeping.  Enjoy!

Articles

• October 18, 2015 [Adventures
  in Censorship](https://web.archive.org/web/20160424142120/http://members.efn.org/%7Epaulmd/OwnWork/AdventuresinCensorship.pdf)(Updated Oct 21, 2015)

  • Source of Is Twitter Censoring a Blockbuster Report on US Drone Assassinations?

• September 10, 2015 [Dropping
  the Other Shoe on Afghanistan](https://web.archive.org/web/20160424142120/http://members.efn.org/%7Epaulmd/OwnWork/TheOtherShoe.pdf)

• December 5, 2014: [GCHQ
  Cable Radioactivity chart.](https://web.archive.org/web/20160424142120/https://members.efn.org/~paulmd/GCHQRadioactivityChart.html)

• July 8, 2014: [Some
  new thoughts about the implications of the Snowden Cache](https://web.archive.org/web/20160424142120/http://members.efn.org/%7Epaulmd/SomeNewThoughtsontheSnowdenCache.html)

• June 28, 2014: The ECI Snowden didn't get, he totally got.

My old posts (Cryptome and TwitLonger):

• A reconstruction of the National Intelligence Priorities Framework, culled from both Snowden and Manning materials. (2007-2013)

  • A suppliment showing the [NIPF
    terrorism priorities](https://web.archive.org/web/20160424142120/http://members.efn.org/%7Epaulmd/OwnWork/NIPF_Priorities_For_Terrorist_Groups.ods) of various terrorist groups and Terrorist Support Entities, culled primarily from the Guantanamo Detanee Assessment Briefs (DABs), 2004-2010. With notes.

• A study and analysis of the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT charts.

• A list of codenames associated with hacking and bugging (in need of updating)

  • May 20, 2014: Codenames associated with the Sino-American cyberwar.

• [NSA
  Serialized Product reports](https://web.archive.org/web/20160424142120/http://members.efn.org/%7Epaulmd/OwnWork/Reportingbysigad.ods), by SIGAD,  FY2010-2013, Projected.

• May 19, 2014: Revealing the identity of the MYSTIC country withheld by [The
  Intercept](https://web.archive.org/web/20160424142120/https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/05/19/data-pirates-caribbean-nsa-recording-every-cell-phone-call-bahamas/) and  the [Washington
  Post](https://web.archive.org/web/20160424142120/http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-surveillance-program-reaches-into-the-past-to-retrieve-replay-phone-calls/2014/03/18/226d2646-ade9-11e3-a49e-76adc9210f19_story.html?hpid=z1).

  • This article was completed before Wikileaks confirmed and cited it. Aspects of this analysis appeared in an RT article, and there has been some political fallout.

• [Redaction
  Fails](https://web.archive.org/web/20160424142120/http://members.efn.org/%7Epaulmd/OwnWork/FallingRedactions1.pdf), and [fails
  again](https://web.archive.org/web/20160424142120/http://members.efn.org/%7Epaulmd/OwnWork/FallingRedactions2.pdf) (Updated August 15, 2014), and fails some more.

  • Redaction Fails 1 was a major source and impetus for an AP article that I also consulted on. However, I decline to be responsible for the misinterpretations of the reporting by talking heads. (Mr Lucas, this means you)

• A look at the videos referenced in the SQUEAKYDOLPHIN presentation.

Links to other sites of interest

• [IC Off the
  Record](https://web.archive.org/web/20160424142120/http://nsa.gov1.info/dni): A parody of the official IC On the Record, but much more useful, contains Snowden files, interviews, and even some analysis, a must-visit for anybody doing serious research on Snowden and his files.
• [Top Level
  Telecom](https://web.archive.org/web/20160424142120/http://electrospaces.net/): Analysis of Intelligence, with a heavy focus on SIGINT.
• Wikileaks: Made most famous by Bradley Chelsea Manning. Still in the leak business, having recently released TISA.
• Cryptome: Focuses on all things secret, a perpetual troublemaker. A collection of all kinds of things from tinfoil hattery to highly consequential national security secrets. Leakier than Wikileaks, always worthwhile.
• CanLeaks: Leaks and FOIA'd files relating to Canada.

Contact Information

Paul Dietrich

Email: < [email protected] >

Twitter:  @paulmd199

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