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From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: January 25, 2007 7:49:07 AM PST
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Subject: [SPY NEWS] OSINT: Google Rules
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http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htintel/articles/20070125.aspx
Google Rules
January 25, 2007:
It's official, the U.S. Department of Defense has a new form of
intelligence; OSINT (Open Source Intelligence.) This joins such old
standbys as HUMINT (Human Intelligence), ELINT (Electronic
Intelligence) and several others. Basically, OSINT is the Internet.
Before the World Wide Web showed up in 1995, there was "open source"
(unclassified information in books, magazines and newspapers), but it
was so difficult to sort through it all to find anything useful, that
it was rarely a factor in intelligence work. Well, not entirely. The
Soviet Union found the freely available technical publications in the
United States to be a very profitable source of useful information.
But for military use, OSINT wasn't there yet. No one expected it to
ever be. Then came the world wide web and search engines. Everything
changed.
Official recognition of OSINT is all about the ease of finding things
on the Internet, and sheer depth, and timeliness, of data on the web.
In the last few years, CIA, military intelligence, and many other,
analysts have been finding good stuff on the web, that they can't find
in their expensive, and highly classified, databases. While there's a
lot of bad information on the web, the ease with which one can quickly
locate several different versions of data, enables an astute analyst
to quickly eliminate the trash, and come up with very useful material.
The only downside of OSINT is that everyone has access to it. The only
edge anyone can have is the skill of their OSINT researchers. Thus the
rush to master Google and other OSINT sources. Nothing good comes
without a price.
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