Boyd Davis Sutton: In Memory – Godfather of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)

Boyd Davis Sutton, 1941-2018 Boyd Davis Sutton died suddenly this past week following a 76 year love affair with life. His official obituary in now online. In the mid-1990’s Boyd was asked by then Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet to study the shortfalls and potential solutions for achieving “global coverage” of the world, something …

Berto Jongman: RAND on OSINT — Without Integrity

RAND_RR1964_OSINT_2018 Rethinking OSINT as an Intelligence Discipline Defining Open Source and OSINT OSINT Subtypes …News Media Content …Gray Literature. …Long-Form Social Media Content …Short-Form Social Media Content OSINT Methodology: The OSINT Operations Cycle …Collection …Processing …Exploitation …Production

Pogo: The CIA’s Party Line on OSINT — Crap with a Ribbon Plus Robert Steele Comment with Links

Wrapping Intelligence Around the Open Source Whirlwind In the internet age, the digital breadcrumbs humans leave in their wake can be harnessed – the geotag on a tweeted photo, or the time stamps on a YouTube video upload. This open source, publicly available material, once scorned by the secret-stealers of the intelligence community, is rising …