Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): merged thread

[davidbfpo]

Hat tip to a "lurker" for this Swiss think tank's fifteen minute podcast:http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Digital-L...g=en&id=154122 and the speakers bio:http://www.i-intelligence.eu/about/team/

The summary says:

The growing availability of open source information has profoundly impacted intelligence agencies and how they have operated over the last 10 years. In today’s podcast, Chris Pallaris discusses the risks and opportunities that open source intelligence poses. He also describes what makes a good intelligence analyst in the open source era.

[AdamG]

The National Security Agency just declassified a hefty 643-page research manual called Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research (PDF) that, at least at first, doesn't appear all that interesting. That is, except for one section on page 73: "Google Hacking."

http://news.yahoo.com/search-spy-goo...140400536.html

[davidbfpo]

This is a very good website that shows what papers are where globally, with details on websites, language spoken etc. I thought I had posted a while back, after a RN speaker referred to it an academic/practitioner conference:http://newspapermap.com/

I wonder if there is a similar site for TV / radio stations, which can be accessed via the web? BBC Monitoring I expect offer a summary, for a fee!

[davidbfpo]

A Greek story:http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014...tion-revealed/

[davidbfpo]

I missed this short video from The Guardian, in April 2014, on the work of a small team at Kings College London's ICSR; they have been to the fore this week commenting on counter-Jihadist options post-Foley:http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/v...al-media-video

Towards the end Dr. Peter Neumann, the ICSR Director, wonders why the teams work is appearently not matched within officialdom with far greater resources.

[davidbfpo]

A FP article which is not convinced of the frequent claims that big data can provide answers and warnings:http://www.foreignpolicy.com/article...igns_of_ebola?

It is behind a registration wall, which defeats citation.

[davidbfpo]

From The Boston Globe a portrait of American open source analysts, including our own Clint Watts (CWOT) and sub-titled:

A new generation of self-made experts is tracking extremists through their online activity — and rewriting the rules of intelligence in the process

The last sentence refelects the thread discussion on why traditional intelligence in the MENA and Ukraine:

The true lesson of the independent jihadi trackers might be that the intelligence and policy establishment needs to be quicker to follow the culture wherever it chooses to communicate, sometimes leaving secret insights scattered in plain sight.

Link:http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/201...?event=event25