Today, it begins! Presenting to you, wonderful Steemians, the secrets I've uncovered in the Snowden files, for your viewing and reading pleasure. I'm preparing annotated episodes of my web series Decipher You - which analyses raw Snowden SIDToday documents - and aim to post one episode per day. Here we go!
Hey all!
A budding OSINT research community has been forming around myself and my friend Elizabeth Lea Vos, Editor in Chief of Disobedient Media, as we've embarked upon an amazing journey to analyse all of the publicly available Snowden files. The files are periodically released in bulk by The Intercept.
I had previously independently analysed Batch One and Batch Two and reported on them in print at a purpose-built blog, DecipherYou.com
But when I began to analyse Batch Three, on a whim I decided to jump on stream on my personal You Tube channel, so that I could hang out with friends and show them what I was doing. Because I had never intended this to be in wide public circulation, the sound is pretty patchy in places, and on this first occasion I had a face full of moisturiser instead of a face full of makeup!! Oh well, c'est la vie! But as I continued to do the streams, I kept finding more and more astounding pieces of information buried in the documents, and soon realised that I had accidentally engineered something really unique - crowd-sourced live analysis of documents that many people are curious about, but few had had the opportunity to study, or the necessary expertise to decipher.
As the episodes continued, the group of people hanging out in chat and studying the docs with me continued to grow, and by the time I got to episode four, Elizabeth had joined me as co-host and Decipher You became a thing!
We now continue this series twice a week, every Tuesday and Friday at 5pm PST / 8pm EST and are up to episode 23.
So to catch up my Steemit followers on all the incredible findings we've made, I thought I'd repost each episode on dTube and timestamp it so you can find out easily where the good bits are, and easily check out the source documents so you can double check our work for yourselves.
I really hope you enjoy. The series starts off super informal - literally in bed with me at 5am one night - but slowly gets a little bit more slick as time goes on and we start to work out a bit more of a format for it. That said, it's still really raw (or as some have said of us - the real deal!!!). Who knows where it will go in the future as we continue to pursue our mission to mine the gems hidden in plain sight!!!
Stick with us. I'd love to have you join the live sessions but if you can't spend hours at a time watching, I'm making it as easy for you as possible to still get the benefit of the information we have discovered!
Love,
Suzie
EPISODE ONE: VIEWING GUIDE
0:00 - 15:00 - Introduction into how I came to be analysing Snowden documents - why DecipherYou exists as a standalone blog - what my methods for analysing and reporting on the documents are.
15:30 - Trade Jargon - a document containing rundown of some of the in-house terminology used by NSA analysts
32:11 - The War On Terror - brought to you by Dell workstations, Oracle databases and Microsoft Exchange Server
37:43 - NSA hunt for a POW pilot from 1991
48:30 - NSA Strategic forecast - Europe more of a threat than China or terrorism
01:03:52 - NSA SIGINT used in Powell's UN Resolution 1511 speech to convince the UN to enter Iraq and subsidise the cleanup of the invasion
01:26:00 - a lesson in OPSEC
01:30:00 - mobile networks / anonymity threats
01:36:45 - Generals concerned about being charged with war crimes
01:53:10 - NSA killing people based on machine translated Arabic? (bad bad bad)
01:57:30 - NSA manager "distressed by the condition in which many of our people are working"
02:22:00 - Writing up the findings
03:33:00 - Outro
By Suzie Dawson
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