The second part includes 6 Enduring Targets, which are countries that need to be treated holistically because of their strategic importance.įor both of these sections, the Strategic Mission List includes Focus Areas, the most critical important targets which are a "must do", as well as Accepted Risks, which are significant targets for which SIGINT should not be relied upon as a primary source. The first part includes 16 Topical Missions, which represent missions discerned to be areas of highest priority for the USSS, where SIGINT can make key contributions. The Strategic Mission List is divided into two parts. Note that according to the classification marking, the Strategic Mission List is only authorized for release to the US, the UK, Canada and Australia, which leaves New Zealand excluded.
The topics are derived from a number of other strategic planning documents, including the National Intelligence Priorities Framework (NIPF), which sets the priorities for the US Intelligence Community as a whole. The document describes the priorities and risks for the United States SIGINT System (USSS) for a period of 12 to 18 months and is reviewed, and where necessary updated bi-annually. But this is not mentioned in the Strategic Mission List, which instead lists a range of far more specific goals, many of which are of a military nature, which is also something that lacks in the media-coverage of the Snowden-leaks. I also asked the author of the report, Scott Shane, but he answered that he had no access to the document anymore.Įventually I used an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tool to convert the images from the NYT website into a text document, conducted the necessary corrections by hand and then converted the result into the pdf-document, that is now published here and on the Cryptome website.Įdward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald claim that NSA has just one single goal: collect all digital communications from all over the world: "Collect it All". Hence I asked The New York Times whether they could provide the Strategic Mission List in the standard pdf-format, but the paper didn't reply. For reasons unknown, NYT is the only media-outlet that published Snowden-documents in this not very user-friendly way.
It was also difficult to print the document in a readable way.
On the website of The New York Times (NYT), the Strategic Mission List was published as a series of images in png-format, which made it impossible to copy or search the text. Should we expect such rumors in echo at a rate of 880 euros at the official launch of the new Galaxy Note Edge phones coming out? Will you be willing to buy it at such a cost? Samsung shows surprisingly silent on the subject. Hence the phenomenon of scarcity that could happen.īut these assumptions also hide another question. There is no doubt that the Korean company will manage the implementation of other territories gradually, without haste. The New Galaxy Note Edge coming out is simply tipped to land at retailers a few weeks after the release of Note 4 According to ZDNet who spoke with DJ Lee, president of Samsung Electronics, the availability in South Korea is not expected before end of October. Even if it does not occur on the same date as the upcoming Galaxy Note 4 which is itself planned from September 26 in Korea and then a few days later in 140 countries.
Galaxy Note Edge is a limited edition with a reduced availabilityīut Samsung is not simply that of a seductive visual, hardware configuration follows the lines of its counterpart Note 4 We will have a racing hands when it was released a few weeks. With its premium design, the first feature is the screen to the curved edge on the right side of the screen, the new Galaxy Note Edge coming out on clashes among other devices in its class. Korean brand seems increasingly speak of it as an exceptional smartphone, the new concept. Samsung adapt its communication to the latest addition to the Galaxy range. Besides the Korean automaker is considering more the latter model as a new concept, a limited edition to offer an alternative to the Galaxy Note 4 And who says limited edition wants often say rarity. Could this be the Samsung day? As we learned earlier that the Galaxy Note 4 will be officially available in October, more information regarding the New Galaxy Note Edge phones coming out just fallen.