This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of phone (DNR) and internet (DNI) records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013, from NSA’s foreign partners: see the Der Spiegel article Spying Together: Germany’s Deep Cooperation with the NSA, 18 June 2014.

This Boundless Informant slide shows the immense number of phone (DNR) and internet (DNI) metadata records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013 for NSA Special Source Operations from a number of sources including XKeyScore: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.

This April 2012 NSA presentation uses an AT&T specific term – Common Backbone or CBB – to refer to the Internet backbone of the corporate partner it codenames FAIRVIEW: see the New York Times article AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale, 15 August 2015.

This three-page memo is an internal guide to the NSA’s Boundless Informant tool, which allows the agency’s Global Access Operations to assess its collection capabilities by means of metadata record counts: see the Guardian article Boundless Informant: the NSA’s secret tool to track global surveillance data, 8 June 2013.

This undated NSA presentation describes techniques for detecting botnets: see the Der Spiegel article The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle, 17 January 2015.

This undated page from NSA’s internal WikiInfo describes VALIANTSURF “the coverterm for the development of Data Network Cipher (DNC) exploitation capabilities in TURMOIL”: see the Der Spiegel story Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA’s War on Internet Security, 28 December 2014.