My, how unsurprisingly interesting...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_of_the_Condor
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/22/145587...he-private-eyeSecrets: the currency of spies around the world. The rise of social media, hash-tags, forums, blogs and online news sites has revealed a new kind of secret — those hiding in plain sight. The CIA calls all this information "open source" material, and it's changing the way America's top spy agency does business.
NPR recently got a rare behind-the-scenes look at the CIA's Open Source Center. It operates on the down-low, even though they deal with public material. We aren't allowed to tell you where the Open Source Center is. All we can say is that it's housed in an unmarked and unremarkable office building just off a nondescript, busy street.
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
http://i.imgur.com/IPT1uLH.jpg
My, how unsurprisingly interesting...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_of_the_Condor
“[S]omething in his tone now reminded her of his explanations of asymmetric warfare, a topic in which he had a keen and abiding interest. She remembered him telling her how terrorism was almost exclusively about branding, but only slightly less so about the psychology of lotteries…” - Zero History, William Gibson
Back in the day, DIA would gain far more hard evidence and get it for nothing.
Open sources to some were a mixed blessing with little to no knowledge of the local culture and language. For some of us those sources were either a joke or the missing piece to the puzzle.
25 years later someone comes up with a basement full of newspapers
Most of the AID and State message traffic (5 copies of each) ended up as french fry paper right across the street from the embassy
I'm really glad I shredded everything with our evac and draw down.
If you want to blend in, take the bus
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.
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