Does The XKeyscore Source Code Leak Point To Another NSA Leaker?
The recent leak of the XKeyscore source code has raised an interesting question. Is there a second leaker? The report written by Jacob Appelbaum and others for DasErste.de detailed the NSA's targeting of Tor users (and even those who just read about Tor) and the harvesting of their communications, but very explicitly did not state that Snowden was the source of this code snippet.
Others noticed this lack of attribution and commented on it. Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing apparently received confirmation that this particular leak was not from Snowden's trove of documents.
Another expert said that s/he believed that this leak may come from a second source, not Edward Snowden, as s/he had not seen this in the original Snowden docs; and had seen other revelations that also appeared independent of the Snowden materials.
Cryptologist and security expert Bruce Schneier (who has seen the documents released to journalists by Snowden) concurred with Doctorow's conclusion.
And, since Cory said it, I do not believe that this came from the Snowden documents. I also don't believe the TAO catalog came from the Snowden documents. I think there's a second leaker out there.
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140706/11292827794/does-xkeyscore-source-code-leak-point-to-another-nsa-leaker.shtml
