Berto Jongman: Social Media OSINT Largely Worthless — Russian Trolls Confuse US Butts in Seats w/o a Clue
Russia’s Troll Army Is Making Life Harder for US Spies US Spies Find Open Source Investigations Worthless, Blame ‘Russian Trolls’
Russia’s Troll Army Is Making Life Harder for US Spies US Spies Find Open Source Investigations Worthless, Blame ‘Russian Trolls’
There is a need for hard data and statistics on OSINT — why it has been relegated to the basement and distributed rather than consolidated as with the other disciplines, what it’s successes and failures have been. In how many cases did it provide Intelligence that was critical to mission success ? NEEDS DATA
The below two headlines should give the 1% great pause. ISIS: Western Journalist Embedded With Group Says He Came Into Contact With Americans Reporter who spent ten days with ISIS says the West ‘has no concept’ of how dangerous the group is and says they want to ‘kill all non-believers and enslave their children’
ROBERT STEELE: Arnold Reuser is the undisputed master. He is one of a tiny handful of people (Ran Hock, Babette Bensoussan are others) who actually know what they are doing and are also ethical in the deepest sense of the word. I cannot over-state his value. OSINT Pathfinder VII training programme Full three day training …
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Ted Swift, a fan of Michael Bazzell’s offerings, has brought Mike’s online front page to our attention, and urged us to share it. One can sign up for a free OSINT newsletter and receive a 75 minute video on exploiting Facebook. There are other offerings. Certainly worth a look. OSINT Training by Michael Bazzell
N2-04, “NATO Open Source Intelligence Course” (NS) (This is a two week course from Aug 2013) Aim: To educate NATO and national intelligence analysts about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) operations, techniques, requirements and procedures Academic Course Guide 2013-03-27 [all courses, titles and short descriptions only] One Page Course Description (repeated below) N2-04 NATO Open Source …
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Seems some of the same old flaws we have highlighted for years…hoarding info giving a false sense of power, no appreciation of the value of OSINT- social media, and silo’s of information concordant with age old turf sequestration. DNI has done little to reduce the overall intel community’s friction but added to it…makes me believe …