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Extraction Summary
3
People
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Organizations
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Locations
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Events
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Relationships
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Quotes
Document Information
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Book excerpt / report page (house oversight committee production)
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Summary
This document page, stamped as part of a House Oversight production, appears to be an excerpt from a narrative report or book. It discusses NSA surveillance capabilities regarding TOR users, specifically referencing the tracking of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht's server in Iceland. It also discusses NSA security vulnerabilities highlighted by the Edward Snowden leaks and comments by former CIA Deputy Director Morell regarding the SVR (Russian intelligence) and cyber security.
People (3)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Ross Ulbricht | Silk Road Founder |
Discovered his TOR software did not hide his server; currently serving life sentence.
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| Morell | CIA Deputy Director (Former) |
Served on committee evaluating NSA vulnerability; wrote 'The Great War of our Times' (2015).
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| Edward Snowden | Civilian Contractor / Leaker |
Referenced in context of the 'Snowden affair' and arriving in Hong Kong with NSA files.
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Organizations (6)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| NSA |
National Security Agency; discussed regarding surveillance capabilities and security vulnerabilities.
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| Silk Road |
Illicit marketplace founded by Ross Ulbricht.
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| Justice Department |
Source of information regarding how the NSA located the Silk Road server.
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| CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency; former employer of Morell.
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| SVR |
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service; discussed in context of monitoring US intelligence activities.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by footer 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'.
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Locations (3)
| Location | Context |
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Location of Ross Ulbricht's computer server.
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Location where Snowden arrived with NSA files.
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Implied jurisdiction (US citizens, Justice Department).
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Relationships (2)
The Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht
Key Quotes (3)
"The Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht discovered to his distress that his TOR software did not make his computer server in Iceland invisible."Source
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"many financial institutions have “better cyber security than the NSA.”"Source
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Quote #2
"Did it find its man? If so, was it before or after Snowden arrived in Hong Kong with the Level 3 NSA files?"Source
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messages which would allow it to trace the path of messages that passed through them. Through this technology, it could tag and follow TOR users as their communications travelled across the Internet. It could even borrow their Internet identities. To be sure, the NSA also had such a capability. The Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht discovered to his distress that his TOR software did not make his computer server in Iceland invisible. According to a former top official in the Justice Department, the NSA was able to locate it by cracking the TOR software, (Ulbricht is currently serving a life prison sentence for his Silk Road activities.). Unlike adversary services, however, the NSA needs a warrant to investigate US citizens who use TOR.
Even the NSA is not immune from an attack of its own computers. CIA deputy director Morell, who served on the committee evaluating the NSA’s vulnerability in the Snowden affair after retiring from the CIA in 2013, wrote in his 2015 book “The Great War of our Times,” that many financial institutions have “better cyber security than the NSA.” If nothing else, the Internet helped make the activities of US intelligence workers visible to the SVR.
Even if the SVR theoretically had opportunities, it still had to find at least one disgruntled civilian contractor inside the NSA who had access to the sealed-off computer networks. Did it find its man? If so, was it before or after Snowden arrived in Hong Kong with the Level 3 NSA files?
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