https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/02/look-under-hood-xkeyscore/
'XKEYSCORE is a piece of Linux software that is typically deployed on Red
Hat servers. It uses the Apache web server and stores collected data in
MySQL databases. File systems in a cluster are handled by the NFS
distributed file system and the autofs service, and scheduled tasks are
handled by the cron scheduling service. Systems administrators who maintain
XKEYSCORE servers use SSH to connect to them, and they use tools such as
rsync and vim, as well as a comprehensive command-line tool, to manage the
software.'
Nonostante tutto, il sistema nel suo complesso sembra sia mal congegnato:
'John Adams, former security lead and senior operations engineer for
Twitter, says that one of the most interesting things about XKEYSCORE’s
architecture is “that they were able to achieve so much success with such a
poorly designed system. Data ingest, day-to-day operations, and searching
is all poorly designed. There are many open source offerings that would
function far better than this design with very little work. Their
operations team must be extremely unhappy.”'
rob
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