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DISHFIRE and the Bulk Text Message Program
DISHFIRE was one of the most revealing mobile-era collection systems exposed in the Snowden archive. This entry traces how NSA processed and stored huge volumes of SMS traffic, why automated texts were treated as an intelligence goldmine, and how the PREFER extraction layer turned messages about missed calls, roaming, payments, travel, and meetings into searchable intelligence.
Declassified / Nsa/declassified sms collection program/2026-03-29