![]() XKEYSCORE is useful because it gets the "front end full take feeds" from the various NSA collection points around the world and importantly, knows what to do with it to make it responsive to search queries. Grady and I reported in our book, is the worldwide base level database for such metadata. XKEYSCORE is not a thing that DOES collecting it's a series of user interfaces, backend databases, servers and software that selects certain types of metadata that the NSA has ALREADY collected using other methods. Just as the Guardian might be accused of over-hyping the clear and present danger associated with this particular program, critics will reflexively overstate the harm that its disclosure would reasonably produce. Certainly, work product associated with XKEYSCORE is Top Secret with several added caveats. I quibble with the Guardian's description of the program as "TOP SECRET." The word is not secret its association with the NSA is not secret that the NSA collects bulk data on foreign targets is, well, probably classified, but at the SECRET level. ![]()
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