CIA Tracks Public Information For The Private Eye

[Entropy]

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/22/145587...he-private-eye

Note to NPR: The CIA hasn't been "America's top spy agency" since 2004 and the Open Source Center isn't the only game in town....

[davidbfpo]

The capacity of the state to watch over us all has appeared on SWC before in:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=11855

A similar discussion took place recently on Schneier's blog, in a comment "Going Dark" vs. a "Golden Age of Surveillance":http://www.schneier.com/blog/archive...dark_vs_a.html

I'm not an avid drawer of demarcation lines, except using 'open source' in this context is stretching the boundaries too far. In my reading on 'open source' intelligence a few years ago the key definition was published and in the public domain. Much of the data in watching the citizen is acquired 24/7 by primarily private companies, e.g. credit card companies and made available under various legal and not so legal methods - it is not published.