Dishfire
Every day, Dishfire strips data from over 190 million text messages. The collected information includes contacts, credit card details, and geolocation data – “pretty much everything it can,” as one leaked document explains.
EvilOlive
This NSA program grabs online data such as the sender, recipient, and time stamp of email correspondences from Internet users, including Americans. One of EvilOlive’s initial purposes was to “broaden the scope” of what data the NSA could pull into its servers.
MYSTIC
Operational since 2011, MYSTIC records every telephone conversation that occurs within a particular country. Relying on the Snowden files, journalists have revealed that MYSTIC is being used in the Bahamas and one other country, which the Wikileaks organization has identified as Afghanistan.
A leaked memo describing the program says, “With proper engineering and coordination, there is little reason this capability cannot expand to other accesses (besides [redacted] and the Bahamas), provided compatible hardware and interfaces are developed and deployed.”
XKeyscore
This far-reaching system allows NSA analysts to search through the billions of data bits stripped from Internet infrastructure and handed over by telecom and tech companies. According to the XKeyscore training presentation published by The Guardian, NSA analysts were trained to find targets by looking for “Someone whose language is out of place for the region they are in” or “Someone searching the web for suspicious stuff.” As Snowden told the newspaper, “I, sitting at my desk, could wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email.”