Paul Fernhout: Open Letter to the Intelligence Advanced Programs Research Agency (IARPA)

EDIT 4 Sep 2011: Link and misc. fixed. Dear IARPA staff- The greatest threat facing the USA is the irony inherent in our current defense posture, like for example planning to use nuclear energy embodied in missiles to fight over oil fields that nuclear energy could replace. This irony arises in part because the USA’s …

John Robb: Free Online Open Source Education + RECAP

JOURNAL: Open Source Education A couple of years back I asked (in the article “Industrial Education” which is worth a read): “An Ivy League Education for less than $20 a month.  Why not?” At the time there were only a smattering of course materials online.  That’s changing.  It’s coming.  Here’s an example of a class that …

Event Report CORRECTED LINKS: Responding to Real Time Information, Open Systems and the Obama IT Vision [Google-Microsoft Meld]

FIXED Big File Problem.  Three Separate Files, each at Their Respectuve Thumbnails. EVENT REPORT: Have you been wondered just how we are going to implement M4IS2* and add to it Real-Time-Processing (RTP) and Near-Real-Time Processing (NRTP)?  This event introduced to the Washington, D.C. environment, for the first time, the concept of operations and related technologies …

Answers on OSINT for India 47: Two Examples and The Bottom Line

Sir, In many of your videos and papers/docs, you mention the following examples- That once you had asked a retired bank chief to give you a summary of the banking situation for 250 USD while the intel community couldn’t gather what you did even after spending thousand’s. Kindly tell about it. Once a US president, …

Answers on OSINT for India 46: OSINT Training Done Right? None

Sir, an official recently asked about institutions capable of training in OSINT in India. All those that i know about teach about internet surfing. Do you know any institutions in India that can impart true OSINT training or any officials who had been trained by you or your company? SHORT ANSWER: No one, anywhere, does …