The Australian Secret Service the ASD reportedly helped the US National Security Service NSA For the collection of millions of email addresses.
With a new leak coming from him Edward SnowdenThe The Washington Post, states that NSA and the ASD gather as much information as possible about how users interact with each other over the internet.
For the NSA, the collection of meta has already been mentioneddata από εκατομμύρια χρήστες του Διαδικτύου χωρίς τη συγκατάθεσή τους, αλλά το πιο πρόσφατο έγγραφο δείχνει πως οι μυστικές υπηρεσίες των ΗΠΑ και της Αυστραλίας έχουν βάλει σαν στόχο τις λίστες διευθύνσεων ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου και τις λίστες επαφών του κάθε messenger.
The document states that secret services collect all contact lists from their users Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail and Facebook and that all of this data is stored in multiple databases.
A representative day, as the Washington Post leaked, shows that the data collected is 712.366 address lists. ASD was responsible for collecting 311.113 from these lists.
Address lists are not the only source of information mentioned in the document. The two intelligence services also appear to be in the contact lists of each messenger while in Yahoo Messenger emphasis.
Στο έγγραφο επισημαίνεται ότι η NSA συλλέγει πληροφορίες από 500.000 λίστες επαφών και από τα εισερχόμενα σε καθημερινή base as reported by Z.
Ωστόσο, η NSA και η ASD έχουν μια δυσκολία με την management των δεδομένων όταν προσπαθούν να τα αναλύσουν.
An example is the case of hacked emails from Yahoo when 2011 was used to send spam. ASD's collection of information was dramatically enriched, as a lot of spam was gathered among the useful information.
Of course, it is extremely worrying that even e-mail accounts that are protected by the use of two-factor authentication are not immune from the secret services.
