Blackmailing dissidents with their porn habits http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128.html

Another link related: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/11/nsa-sexint-abuse-you%E2%80%99ve-all-been-waiting

They've also literally watched people through their webcams: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo

Oh! And no terrorist attacks have been stopped: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/nsa-program-stopped-no-terror-attacks-says-white-house-panel-v21975158

despite the NSA director having come out to say 54 terrorist acts were stopped and then later admitting he lied. Embarrassing.

Global information grid, in real time. When did science fiction stop being fiction?

Intercepting everybody's webcam images on Yahoo http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo

If this is a limited hangout it's not very 'limited' at all.

It appears to be limited to the NSA.

Why make artificial distinctions between agencies & the Pentagon? Or JSOC?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare

One example off the top of my head. There are dozens of others from various agencies, such as the JSOC assassination ring, et al.

Other various capabilities beyond the NSA:

• Guardian reveals that NASA succeeded in using space telescope to decipher voices in a room. Telescope analysed the vibrations of the clothing being worn by the room occupants. This was in 2005. CIA also allegedly has a "laser microphone": "If you shine a laser beam on those windows [of the buildings], you can detect those vibrations, and using voice identification, you can figure out how many different voices are speaking in each of the rooms of the compound."

• 1952's "The Thing" listening device, precursor to god-knows-what types of "passive resonant" listening devices are technologically possible now, implanted in passports & IDs

• Before cell phones, landlines could be eavesdropped on -- even when hung-up -- by amplifying volume thousands of times, and this was known as an "infinity mike" (infinity microphone). Since the advent of intelligence community techniques such as keyword hijacking -- itself a phrase that has been keyword hijacked as the Internet's name for "fraudulent prevention of Google-advertised sites from receiving their fair share of hits" -- Googling "infinity mike" will, now, only uncover harmless cartoon characters, obscuring the original meaning of that phrase: Classic keyword hijacking.

• Room-mapping cell phone sonar

And more fringe:

Sky Deutsch­land to broad­cast adverts directly into train pas­sen­gers’ heads

Sky Deutsch­land has devel­oped tech­nol­ogy to trans­fer adverts from train win­dows directly and silently into com­muters’ heads.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/10158311/Sky-Deutschland-to-broadcast-adverts-directly-into-train-passengers-heads.html

Pas­sen­gers lean­ing their head against the win­dow will “hear” adverts “com­ing from inside the user’s head”, urg­ing them to down­load the Sky Go app.

The pro­posal involves using bone con­duc­tion tech­nol­ogy, which is used in hear­ing aids, head­phones and Google’s Glass head­set, to pass sound to the inner ear via vibra­tions through the skull.

A video for the Talk­ing Win­dow cam­paign released by Sky Deutsch­land and ad agency BBDO Ger­many states: “Tired com­muters often rest their heads against win­dows. Sud­denly a voice inside their head is talk­ing to them. No one else can hear this message.”

The voice comes from a Sky-branded trans­mit­ter made by Audiva that is attached to the train window.

BBDO spokesman Ulf Brychcy told the BBC: “If our cus­tomer Sky Deutsch­land agrees, we will start with the new medium as quickly as possible.

“Some peo­ple don’t like adver­tis­ing in gen­eral. But this is really a new tech­nol­ogy. [It might] not only be used for adver­tis­ing, but also for music, enter­tain­ment, mass trans­port infor­ma­tion, weather reports and so on.”

Sky Deutsch­land said it had not made a deci­sion on whether to launch the campaign.

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Voice to Skull Tech­nol­ogy in New York Via: AdAge:

New Yorker Ali­son Wil­son was walk­ing down Prince Street in SoHo last week when she heard a woman’s voice right in her ear ask­ing, “Who’s there? Who’s there?” She looked around to find no one in her imme­di­ate sur­round­ings. Then the voice said, “It’s not your imag­i­na­tion.”

Indeed it isn’t. It’s an ad for “Para­nor­mal State,” a ghost-themed series pre­mier­ing on A&E this week. The bill­board uses tech­nol­ogy man­u­fac­tured by Holosonic that trans­mits an “audio spot­light” from a rooftop speaker so that the sound is con­tained within your cra­nium. The tech­nol­ogy, ideal for muse­ums and libraries or envi­ron­ments that require a quiet atmos­phere for iso­lated audio slideshows, has rarely been used on such a scale before. For ran­dom passersby and res­i­dents who have to walk unwit­tingly through the area where the voice will pen­e­trate their inner peace, it’s another story.

Ms. Wil­son, a New York-based styl­ist, said she expected the voice inside her head to be some type of cre­ative project but could see how oth­ers might per­ceive it dif­fer­ently, par­tic­u­larly on a late-night stroll home. “I might be a lit­tle freaked out, and I wouldn’t nec­es­sar­ily think it’s com­ing from that bill­board,” she said.

Joe Pom­pei, pres­i­dent and founder of Holoson­ics, said the creepy approach is key to draw­ing atten­tion to A&E’s show. But, he noted, the tech­nol­ogy was designed to avoid adding to noise pol­lu­tion. “If you really want to annoy a lot of peo­ple, a loud­speaker is the best way to do it,” he said. “If you set up a loud­speaker on the top of a build­ing, everybody’s going to hear that noise. But if you’re only direct­ing that sound to a spe­cific viewer, you’re never going to hear a neigh­bor com­plaint from street ven­dors or pedes­tri­ans. The whole idea is to spare other peo­ple.”

Holoson­ics has part­nered with a cable net­work once before, when Court TV imple­mented the tech­nol­ogy to pro­mote its “Mys­tery Whis­perer” in the mys­tery sec­tions of select book­stores. Mr. Pom­pei said the com­pany also has tested retail deploy­ments in gro­cery stores with Proc­ter & Gam­ble and Kraft for cus­tomized audio mes­sag­ing. So a cus­tomer, for exam­ple, look­ing to buy laun­dry deter­gent could sud­denly hear the sound of gur­gling water and thus feel com­pelled to buy Tide as a result of the sonic expe­ri­ence.

Mr. Pom­pei con­tends that the tech­nol­ogy will take time for con­sumers to get used to, much like the lights on dig­i­tal sig­nage and illu­mi­nated bill­boards did when they were first used. The web­site Gawker posted an item about the bill­board last week with the head­line “Schiz­o­phre­nia is the new ad gim­mick,” and asked “How soon will it be until in addi­tion to the do-not-call list, we’ll have a ‘do not beam com­mer­cial mes­sages into my head’ list?”

“There’s going to be a cer­tain pop­u­la­tion sen­si­tive to it. But once peo­ple see what it does and hear for them­selves, they’ll see it’s effec­tive for get­ting atten­tion,” Mr. Pom­pei said.

http://cryptogon.com/?p=1713

"It appears to be limited to the NSA.

Why make artificial distinctions between agencies & the Pentagon? Or JSOC?"

Not quite; https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/the-nsas-secret-role/

Another ignored issue here is the relevance of international interagency functionality such as the Safari Club and its heirs.

TL;DR - When the 1970s Church/Pike Committee reforms of the intelligence community were afoot, and when Carter allegedly "purged" the CIA, rogue elements (including those purged) formed rogue alliances with international agencies (such as Saudi intelligence, etc.), including rogue alliances within the framework of legitimate international alliances.

Everybody knows about Escheleon of the 1990s -- circumventing domestic U.S. surveillance laws by having English-speaking countries eavesdrop on each other & share third-party data -- but this is also the surreptitious model for operations like kidnappings & assassinations & torture, quasi-"legitimized" since Bush, but routine for decades using wildcard third-party agency allies (and rogue factions within those agencies) like Saudi intelligence.

Which all means that any international capabilities -- technologically or otherwise -- are on the table for any agency within the U.S. via third-party.

Just to add perspective it might be good to include some info about this article which is entirely derived from just one page of a four-volume internal NSA history (which is shown at the bottom of the article). The NSA has been spying on Americans (and senators) since at least the mid-60's...

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/09/25/it_happened_here_NSA_spied_on_senators_1970s

look forward to the book...

I wish you'd update your awesome Mega-List of 9/11 Suspicious Circumstances and Flaws in the Official Story.

http://www.thepeopleshistory.net/2013/08/the-mega-list-of-holes-in-official.html

http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1korgs/the_official_megalist_of_911_suspicious/

Thanks for all this work, much appreciated!

welcome back /u/Three_Letter_Agency

im curious as to your opinion on limited hangouts?

A reminder that even with all these BILLIONS poured into the NSA (and the CIA, FBI, DIA, etc)--they still f'ed up 9/11...

Full Letter: http://consortiumnews.com/2014/01/07/nsa-insiders-reveal-what-went-wrong/

"The sadder reality, Mr. President, is that NSA itself had enough information to prevent 9/11, but chose to sit on it rather than share it with the FBI or CIA. We know; we were there. We were witness to the many bureaucratic indignities that made NSA at least as culpable for pre-9/11 failures as are other U.S. intelligence agencies...

...“My first day on the job at NSA was 9/11. I was immediately charged as the lead NSA executive to find and deploy the best technology at NSA for the fight against terrorism....

...“That’s where I found the pre- and post-9/11 intelligence from NSA monitoring of some of the hijackers as they planned the attacks of 9/11 had not been shared outside NSA. This includes critical pre-9/11 intelligence on al-Qaeda, even though it had been worked on by NSA analysts. I learned, for example, that in early 2001 NSA had produced a critical long-term analytic report unraveling the entire heart of al-Qaeda and associated movements. That report also was not disseminated outside of NSA.

“Make no mistake. That data and the analytic report could have, should have prevented 9/11...

...“In short, when confronted with the prospect of fessing up, NSA chose instead to obstruct the 9/11 congressional investigation, play dumb, and keep the truth buried, including the fact that it knew about all inbound and outbound calls to the safe house switchboard in Yemen. NSA’s senior leaders took me off the task because they realized – belatedly, for some reason – that I would not take part in covering up the truth about how much NSA knew but did not share.

“When the 9/11 Commission hearings began, Director Hayden chortled at executive staff meetings over the fact that the FBI and CIA were feeling the heat for not having prevented 9/11. This was particularly difficult for me to sit through, for I was aware that NSA had been able to cover up its own culpability by keeping investigators, committees, and commissions away from the truth."

You know when you say it like that it seems so much worse. If you have followed the Snowden leaks from the beginning you wouldn't think he divulged this information. That's why I am still suspicious of the whole situation.

I didn't see it in your list so apologies if it's there but I missed it...

Setting up fake cell phone towers to trick your phone into connecting to a massive spy tower (pardon my lack of technical terms...)

Considering the recent revelations (claims) made by Snowden, with reference to the cooperation of telecommunications companies with the NSA, I don't think "fake cell phone towers" are necessary to involve anyone's cell phone in a massive spy operation. You know... just sayin... it stands to reason.

He may be confusing this with the Stingray Device

Many years ago, a friend from college who I would trust with my life cam bcd through town. He went to work in telecommunications, I didn't. We had lunch. After a while, he told me the story if when he installed the terminal at the NSA Into Verizon's main frame. This was shortly after it was renamed Verizon frm GTE. He didn't question it, but then when it was inspected there was of course a login, they made him remove it. He objected sincewith full admin access, they could do much damage by accident and everything had a log. He was told it was an open terminal, no log in, no log files created situation. They could create accts, change dates, add or delete accts or details of accounts and the record would how no change. He was visibly shaken even telling me this. I can provide no proof of this or his name, please don't ask.