The NSA Is Much Bigger Than We Thought
What is the word of the day, according to Edward Snowden? Jeopardy fashioned answer is—What is Torus?
The NSA is much bigger than we thought. In fact, the NSA’s ECHELON capacity has doubled since 2000, and is set to quadruple in the future, according to a special report from an investigative journalist in the business.
Multiple-beam antennas are essential to accomplishing the goal, even if they look like ‘warped billboards’.
The Torus antenna—unique quasi-parabolic shapes enabling them to simultaneously collect signals from up to 35 earth orbiting satellites at once—is key to the puzzle. Here’s another special report.
New Collection Posture
This slide (New Collection Posture) from an NSA presentation to the 2011 Five Eyes conference shows that limits on the collection and processing of information are not part of the way the agency sees its own role:
For more information see the book No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
