MILNET Headlines 15 February 2010

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Cyber-Security: DISA to establish safe haven outside the Internet

Cyber-Security: U.S. Internet security plan revamped

Threat-China: The Last Shuttle and the Rise of China

Threat-China: Who needs aircraft carriers and cruise missiles when you have IOUs?

Threat-China: Why China's Naval Rise Could Help The World

Threat-Google: Google Buzz Abandons Auto-Following Amid Privacy Concerns

Threat-Google: Too Easy: How a Simple Hack Can Turn Your Numeric Google Profile URL Back into a Gmail Address

Threat-Ideas: Jihad of the Pen

Threat-Iran: Are The Ayatollahs Using COIN? http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2010/02/this-week-at-war-are-the-ayato/

Threat-Iran: RAND: Mullahs, Guards, and Bonyads: An Exploration of Iranian Leadership Dynamics

Threat-Nuclear: Nuclear sites vulnerable to break-ins

Threat-Terrorism: How Bin Laden Lost The Clash Of Civilizations

Threat-Terrorism: U.S. hunts for English-speaking bombers

Threat-USG: Justice Dept. defends warrantless cell phone tracking

Threat-Whaling: Whaling: Will Greenpeace trial in Japan put whalers on notice?

U.S. Intelligence: A U.S. Intelligence Breakthrough in the Persian Gulf?

US Strategy: A Plan for ‘Best Practices’ on National Security Reporting

US Strategy: Turning The Taliban

Journal: Glenn Beck–What Would the Founders Do?

Cultural Intelligence

Glenn Beck has gone public with a pox on both parties.  We consider this significant.

He is also spinning up the Constitution and the words of the Founding Fathers while calling on Congress to exercise its Article 1 powers.

America appears to be making a decisive turn away from the two-party system and toward a demand for a restoration of electoral reform and integrity in all aspects of governance and politics.

Happy Birthday Arno Reuser–Master Librarian

08 Wild Cards, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Librarian Intelligence, Peace Intelligence, Policies, Real Time, Threats, Topics (All Other)
Arno Reuser

PLATINUM LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Arno “The Curious” Reuser

Mr. Arno Reuser, Arno the Curious, is a Master Librarian who has done more for the practice of Open Source Inteligence (OSINT) in support of national security than anyone else in Europe.  He has been a pioneer in the explotiation of badly-delivered OSINT from private sector vendors, writing original PERL programs to make sense of their feeds; he has known how to make the most of the Internet; and above all, he has known how to find and engage human intellects around the world, each capable of producing unique tailored knowledge not available online or in print.  He is the Master Librarian of the OSINT world and all seven intelligence tribes.

When InterNET is InterNOT (2008)

Virtual Open Source Agency (2006)

Librarian Tradecraft (2003)


Search: osint handbook

Handbooks, InfoOps (IO), Methods & Process, OSINT Generic, Searches

Too much stuff comes up on this despite its being avery reasonable search.  Here is a shorter hit list.

2009 OSINT Links Directory by Ben Benavides

2009 Handbook Online for Internet Tools and Resources for Creating Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) by Dr. Ran Hock, Chief Training Officer, Online Strategies, Inc. remains the best private sector offering.

Handbook: Election 2008 Annotated Bibliography on Reality

2004 Special Operations Forces OSINT Handbook (Strawman)

2000-2002 NATO OSINT Handbooks

Handbook: Open Source Intelligence 101 (2002)

2000 PRIMER on Open Sources & Methods

1998 Open Source Intelligence Executive Overview (Handbook)

Worth a Look: Talking Plants–Sensor to Shooter

Earth Intelligence, Worth A Look
Toward a Whole Earth Grid

“Homegrown Terra-rists” Ignite Video

The Ignite Show just posted episode 2, Kati’s Botanicalls Ignite NYC talk from back in September 2008 during Web 2.0 Expo. You may want to skip past the intro…and start at 1:33.

The Botanicalls system and applications use networked open source hardware and software to allow plants to communicate with people on people’s terms – using the telephone, text messages or twitter.

Soil Sensor to Shooter SMS

See also:

Plants Text Message Farmers When Thirsty

ScienceDaily (May 5, 2008) — Beginning this crop season, farmers will be able to receive text messages on their cell phones from their plants saying whether they are thirsty or not.

Thirsty Plants Text For Help: Interactive Telecommunications Researchers Develop A Device For Plants To Send Text Messages

To communicate, probes in the soil emit electric waves. A voltage level based on the moisture content is sent through two wires to a circuit board that compares the optimum moisture level with the current one. A local network receives this data and allows the plant to send a message through the device.

Phi Beta Iota: We continue to believe that the US Government should integrate the totality of the federal budget under three Vice Presidents for, respectively, Commonwealth; Education, Intelligence & Research; and National Security.  Changes to the Earth that used to take 10,000 years now take three, and the politicization of science and education, like the politicization of intelligence, has made us deaf, dumb, and blind to what really matters for the survival of humanity–the state of the Earth and the state of humanity on Earth.