State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield

Re:State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield by rshnotsecure on Monday October 05, 2020 @11:52PM (#24694542)

Recently a local data center provider in Central Texas was found to be a major nexus for Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) material. Data Foundry, formerly known as Texas.net.

It also now appears to have been a major collection node, codenamed WAXTITAN, for the NSA's BOUNDLESS INFORMANT program.

They had been accused back as far as 2013 by a former sysadmin for hosting CSA, and as recently as last year the OAG in New Mexico repeatedly asked them to do something about the content [1].

This data center provider was recently outted as part of the #BlueLeaks breach, because all 78 DHS Fusion Center sites were hosted there.

Several engineers in Austin, Texas, including myself, have been interviewed by the FBI. It is clear it was not a covert entrapment program or anything like that.

This all brings us to the question of, if the NSA can work with groups and on servers distributing enormous amounts of videos of child sex, they really can do anything they want can't they?

[1] - https://www.abolishapd.org/post/apd-nmoag-nsa

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Re:State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield by dilap on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @12:05AM (#24694588)

> This data center provider was recently outted as part of the #BlueLeaks breach, because all 78 DHS Fusion Center sites were hosted there.

What's that?

I'm a little lost. Could you spell it out for someone who has no familiarity with any of these operations? (I.e., What exactly was the NSA doing, and what was its relationship to Data Foundry?)

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Re:State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield by rshnotsecure on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @12:08AM (#24694604)

I submitted a Cryptome post that might help some [1]. Scroll down and read points 1-5.

Being familiar with the original #BlueLeaks story is also helpful to understand [2].

[1] - https://cryptome.org/2020/09/dhs-fusion-center.htm

[2] - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/06/blueleaks-exposes-files-...

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Re:State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield by metadatabad on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @06:10AM (#24696238)

Thanks for the tip. The Cryptome archives are a treasure!

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Re:State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield by swiley on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:53AM (#24696746)

You're arguing the NSA is aiding Child Sex Abuse because they had a machine colocated in the same datacenter as a usenet provider?

I must have misunderstood something. I'm not a fan of the NSA but that sounds ridiculous. Even if it were true (which is likely) it has nothing to do with them

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Re:State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield by ryanlol on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:47AM (#24696138)

> Recently a local data center provider in Central Texas was found to be a major nexus for Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) material. Data Foundry, formerly known as Texas.net.

There’s CP on usenet? shocking

> It also now appears to have been a major collection node, codenamed WAXTITAN, for the NSA's BOUNDLESS INFORMANT program

You have no idea if this is true, you’re just speculating based on the appearance of a single Data Foundry IP address in a leaked NSA slide which you don’t understand.

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