IC Watch - is a database, built by Transparency Toolkit, hosted by Wikileaks. The site includes a searchable database of 27,000 LinkedIn profiles of people in the intelligence community. Organizers say the aim of the site is to "watch the watchers." WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange talks about how the database could be used to help identify individuals connected to the U.S. kill list, formally known as the Joint Prioritized Effects List, or JPEL. But, "Most of the people posting on these profiles are not in the NSA themselves," McGrath(One of the people behind ICWATCH) pointed out. Instead, they work for contractors, such as Booz Allen Hamilton, where Snowden previously worked, or Lockheed Martin. Anonymous has accused Booz Allen of working with HBGary Federal by creating a project for the manipulation of social media. Remember the intelligence community are just people too "I think they're, for the most part, pretty normal people," McGrath said. "They had Facebook profiles, they had various pictures, funny pictures."
Tailored Access Operations (TAO), the elite hacking unit of the NSA suspected of hacking into systems all over the world.
XKEYSCORE, the name of an NSA system that purportedly collates data such as emails and browsing histories. Some journalists also told McGrath what terms they would like to search for.
Michael Wolf, he has served on the Board of Directors of several companies including: Yahoo!, Entercom Communications Corporation, iAmplify.com, and on the Board of Advisors for Slide.com. Wolf was the former President and Chief Operating Officer of MTV Networks. During his tenure at MTV, Wolf became one of Mark Zuckerberg's early mentors. Wolf was a Senior Partner with Booz Allen Hamilton, where he spearheaded its Media and Entertainment Group.
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"PENNANTRACE", was found on the profile of a Senior SIGINT operator (SIGINT means "signals intelligence", which is the monitoring of communications or signals). Based on what he found, McGrath thinks PENNANTRACE is connected to the use of surveillance drones, he told me. One job description found on LinkedIn described PENNANTRACE as an "airborne collection platform".
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