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WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks () is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents. It is funded by donations and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymous sources. It was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange. Kristinn Hrafnsson is its editor-in-chief. Its website states that it has released more than ten million documents and associated analyses. WikiLeaks' most recent publication of original documents was in 2019 and its most recent publication was in 2021. From November 2022, numerous documents on the organisation's website became inaccessib
espionage
thumb|Madame Minna Craucher (right), a Finnish [[socialite and spy, with her chauffeur Boris Wolkowski (left) in 1930s]]
reverse engineering
process by which a man-made object is deconstructed to reveal its designs, architecture, code or to extract knowledge from the object
PRISM
PRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies. The program is also known by the SIGAD . PRISM collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google and Apple under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms. Among other things, the NSA can use these PRISM requests to target communications that were encrypted when they traveled across the internet backbone, to focus on
Five Eyes
intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States
secret service
government agency concerned with the gathering of intelligence data
Patrick Leigh Fermor
British author, scholar and soldier (1915–2011)
aerial reconnaissance
military exploration and observation by means of aircraft or other airborne platforms
XKeyscore
XKeyscore (XKEYSCORE or XKS) is a classified computer system used by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for searching and analyzing global Internet data, which it collects in real time. The NSA has shared XKeyscore with other intelligence agencies, including the Australian Signals Directorate, Canada's Communications Security Establishment, New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau, Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, Japan's Defense Intelligence Headquarters, Germany's Bundesnachrichtendienst, and the Danish Defense Intelligence Service, the latter of
UKUSA Agreement
secret treaty permitting internet surveillance
advanced persistent threat
stealthy threat actor
invisible ink
substance used for writing which is invisible and can later be made visible
Teufelsberg
Teufelsberg (; German for ''Devil's Hill'') is a non-natural hill in Berlin, Germany, in the Grunewald locality of former West Berlin. It rises about above the surrounding Teltow plateau and above the sea level, in the north of Berlin's Grunewald Forest. It was named after the Teufelssee (Devil's Lake) in its southerly vicinity. The hill is made of debris and rubble, and covers an unfinished Nazi military-technical college (Wehrtechnische Fakultät). During the Cold War, there was a U.S. listening station on the hill, Field Station Berlin. The site of the former field station is now fenced off
security clearance
status granted to individuals allowing them access to classified information or to restricted areas
The Thing
Audio bug formerly hidden in Moscow US embassy
global surveillance
mass surveillance of entire populations across national borders
Big Brother Awards
negative award
microwave auditory effect
Concept in human perception of sound
denunciation
thumb|A "Lion's Mouth" postbox for anonymous denunciations at the Doge's Palace in [[Venice. Text translation: "Secret denunciations against anyone who will conceal favors and services or will collude to hide the true revenue from them".]]
Third Tunnel of Aggression
one of four known tunnels located under the border between North Korea and South Korea
Boundless Informant
big data analysis and visualization tool used by the NSA
secret identity
personal identity less known to a public than another identity or persona
Onyx
Swiss intelligence gathering system
Dropmire
Dropmire is a surveillance program by the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) aimed at surveillance of foreign embassies and diplomatic staff, including those of NATO allies. The program's existence was revealed in June 2013 by whistleblower Edward Snowden in The Guardian. The report alleged that at least 38 foreign embassies were under surveillance, some of them as far back as 2007.
age verification system
measure used to restrict access to digital content by age
operations security
counterespionage safety procedures and practices
Turla
malware package
Central Monitoring System
Internet monitoring effort from the Indian government
Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory
conspiracy theory involving government foreknowledge of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor
Great Cannon
Chinese cyberweapon attack tool
Democratic National Committee cyber attacks
burn notice
a statement issued by an intelligence agency asserting the unreliability of a source
intelligence asset
informant for spies
interdiction
Interdiction is interception of an object prior to its arrival at the location where it is to be used in military, espionage, and law enforcement.
Upstream collection
term used by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States
Official Secrets Act, 1923
Act of Imperial Legislative Council of India, original name Indian Official Secrets Act, 1923; renamed by Act 24 of 1967
Maximator
European intelligence alliance
Institute of Pacific Relations
organization
U.S. Army Field Manual 30-31B
a document claiming to be a classified appendix to a U.S. Army Field Manual