Snowden, an American, left Hong Kong, detonating a blockbuster bomb in the information society, shaking the whole world into chaos. Like the plot of a spy war blockbuster, it appears in reality. The "Prism" plan exposed by Snowden has uncovered the dark side of America's long-term surveillance operations in the Internet age. "Prism" is only a part of it. Regarding the monitoring program of the United States, there is a beautiful name - "STELLARWIND" monitoring program.
On September 11, 2001, the United States suffered an unprecedented attack. The shock and aftermath of the attack quickly spread to various fields - the intelligence community was the most sensitive and the first to be involved. This stems from the functioning of the intelligence community and its dereliction of duty. For a long time before the attack, all kinds of intelligence information was continuously collected to the NSA, not only the information of domestic intelligence agencies, but also a lot of warning and warning intelligence from allies and international. Given the sheer amount of intelligence it receives every day, the NSA is somewhat slack or excusable. Between one hundred secrets and one sparse, perhaps intentionally, "911" appeared. The emergence of "911", in addition to obtaining a moral reason for the hawks of the Bush administration to attack Afghanistan and intervene in Central Asia, has another effect: intelligence agencies can openly and more brazenly monitor the telephone calls of the United States and the world, Personal information such as faxes, emails, chat records, etc.
As a result, the National Security Agency quickly launched a top-secret surveillance program code-named "Stellar Wind" to collect personal data information of citizens in the United States. The US media even broke the news that the "Prism" project originated from the more mysterious "Stellar Wind" project in 2004. At that time, due to sensitive issues such as legal procedures, the then Bush administration was forced to make concessions and reduce the monitoring project in the United States. . At the same time, in order to avoid the death of the "Stellar Wind" plan, the Bush administration split it into four major projects, the "Prism" plan, the "Main Road" plan, the "Dock" plan and the "Nuclear" plan, all of which were handed over to the NSA. Then-Vice President Dick Cheney was behind the Stellar Wind program and four separate projects. It can be seen that the US surveillance plan is not only the infamous "Prism Project", but the "Starwind Project" carefully planned by the US authorities a long time ago. And this plan, unsurprisingly, shows the wolf ambitions of the United States for the layout of world surveillance.