[lac-discuss-en] Fwd: [NCSG-Discuss] NSA and surveillance of DNS

[José Francisco Arce]

Fyi
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De: "Milton L Mueller" <mueller at syr.edu>
Fecha: ene 24, 2015 2:12 PM
Asunto: [NCSG-Discuss] NSA and surveillance of DNS
Para: <NCSG-DISCUSS at listserv.syr.edu>
Cc:

 There is a new paper out based on the Snowden revelations about how the
NSA uses DNS queries for surveillance.

I haven’t 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



“[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).”



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 – 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