[lac-discuss-en] Fwd: [NCSG-Discuss] NSA and surveillance of DNS
Fyi
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De: "Milton L Mueller" <mueller@xxxxxxx>
Fecha: ene 24, 2015 2:12 PM
Asunto: [NCSG-Discuss] NSA and surveillance of DNS
Para: <NCSG-DISCUSS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc:
There is a new paper out based on the Snowden revelations about how the
NSA uses DNS queries for surveillance.
I havenât read it yet, am in the process of doing so, but wanted to send
this out for those of you who would also be interested before I forget.
https://gnunet.org/sites/default/files/mcb-en.pdf
â[In] a new set of top secret documents seen by Heise, it is revealed that
the MORECOWBELL (MCB) program of the American spy agency NSA monitors DNS
as a source of information about the Internet (Figure 2). NSA's MORECOWBELL
program uses a dedicated covert monitoring infrastructure to actively query
DNS servers
and perform HTTP requests to obtain meta information about services and to
check their availability (Figure 1).â
This could just be automated collection of internet data of the sort that
we academics and network operators engage in routinely, only the NSA is
doing it â again, have to see.
Milton L Mueller
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor
Syracuse University School of Information Studies
http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/
Internet Governance Project
http://internetgovernance.org
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