Digital Network Intelligence Explained

Digital Network Intelligence or DNI is a term used in the United States Intelligence Community that refers to "intelligence from intercepted digital data communications transmitted between, or resident on, networked computers."^[1]

Programs and units gathering DNI

• Pinwale, an NSA collection and retrieval system for DNI, including internet e-mail
• STORMBREW, a secret NSA internet surveillance program
• 659th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group of the United States Air Force, an intelligence unit located at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
• BLARNEY, an NSA communications surveillance program started in 1978
• PRISM, an NSA program, part of the PRISM program, for collecting internet communications from various U.S. internet companies
• OAKSTAR, an upstream collection program of the NSA for secret internet surveillance
• Fairview, a secret NSA program in cooperation with American telecommunications company AT&T
• XKeyscore, a secret NSA computer system for searching and analyzing global Internet data

See also

• signals intelligence (SIGINT)

References

1. Web site: The National Security Agency Declassified.