27.07.2013 - 10:29 [ techdirt ]

Details Revealed On Old NSA Intelligence Database: ANCHORY

You may remember that, back in June, we pointed out that if you plugged in a few of the „code names“ for various NSA programs (as revealed by Ed Snowden‘s leaks), you could find a few resumes of NSA employees, listing out other such code names. Jason Gulledge apparently saw that post, and used the list of code names that we posted to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on NSA documents concerning those programs. Amazingly, they actually sent back some info — though, just about the very first program, ANCHORY, and the info sent is from 1993 (and some from 2000), describing the text search system that the government has to search through various intelligence reports. From 1993, long before „search engines“ were a thing: