ANNEX 7: THE SNOWDEN ALLEGATIONS
groups instead of individually.”16
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OPERATION MULLENIZE was said to involve a technique called User Agent
Staining to write a unique mark or “stain” onto a target machine. The unique marker
enabled all the events from the machine to be pieced together to “recreate a browsing
session.” The catalyst for the operation was said to be the sharing of an IP address
by many users at one time, which made it difficult to identify users. It was said that a
method has been devised to enable “staining” on a “large-scale”.17
https://www.eff.org/document/20140315-intercept-turbine-intelligence-command-and-control.
https://www.eff.org/document/20131004-wapo-gchq-mullenize.
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