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Answers on OSINT for India 26 – The Internet is NOT OSINT!

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Sir, if you would have been given the task to tell about OSINT to an audience that has no idea about it or an audience that confuses it with internet, how would you introduce OSINT to them?

I am facing this problem.

After defining OSINT, I have to draw some background on it. The material available correlates OSINT with the US IC and the Cold War era. None of these will attract the Indian audience. Is there anything generic available on OSINT? Please help.

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Worth a Look: Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigation

Data, Worth A Look

Press Release: Berkeley Law Center Creates First Global Protocol On Using Social Media As Evidence For War Crimes

PDF (104 Pages): Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations

Phi Beta Iota: If you want to be a drunk under the streetlamp looking for keys far far away, this is the best manual available. It is also a road map for FAKING digital online sources.  OSINT is HUMINT. Harnessing digital volunteers is helpful — Crisis Mappers demonstrated that until they were bought out and repressed — but anyone who  thinks online is more than 10-15% of the solution is stupid or corrupt.

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Penguin: Web 3.0 Decentralized Internet Advances

#OSE Open Source Everything, Autonomous Internet

Kiwi software company paves the way for mainstream decentralisation

Sylo, the software development company, has launched Oya, which has been described as ‘the beginning of mainstream decentralisation’. Oya is a complete reimagining of their backend architecture that leads the way for mainstream decentralisation.

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