The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Source: Email from CEO of InfoSphere SA (SE) InfoSphere CEO Comment: We never talk OSINT.. We talk sourceinfo. This is the Infosphere view. Remote is what you do with your computer, phone, etc. Direct is when you collect on the ground. Covert or Overt – lines are blurry. The output is intelligence, the input data …
Economic and Social Threats, including 95% 01 Poverty 99% 02 Infectious Disease 95% 03 Environmental Degradation (includes Climate Change) 90% 04 Inter-State Conflict 75% Internal-Conflict, including 90% 05 Civil War 80% 06 Genocide 95% 07 Other Large-Scale Atrocities 95% 08 Proliferation of nuclear, radiological, chemical, and biological weapons (many would add small arms as well) …
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Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT) – Same Song, New Melody? Florian Schaurer Open Source Intelligence Blog, 31 October 2012 Without setting the schmaltzy pride of belated parents aside, David Omand, Jamie Bartlett and Carl Miller – as an online first article in Taylor & Francis’ well-established periodical ‘Intelligence and National Security‘ – are ‘Introducing Social …
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“NEGATIVE RECIPROCITY” EMERGES IN THE SECURITY CLEARANCE SYSTEM In the world of security clearances for access to classified information, the term “reciprocity” is used to indicate that one executive branch agency should ordinarily recognize and accept a security clearance that has been granted by another executive branch agency. This is not just a nice, cost-efficient …
WordPress search results are presented in reverse chronological order, and osint is a very old concept, since replaced by M4IS2. OSINT is also only relevant in the context of a larger contruct, ethical evidence-based decisions in support of policy, acquisition, and operations. Our understanding is that the US Government has eliminated the ADDNI/OS position and …
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is predominantly a Human Intelligence (HUMINT) endeavor. The US Government (USG) has not only failed to be serious about OSINT (and thereby deliberately foresaken all possibilities of doing intelligence with integrity for Whole of Government), but it appears to have eliminated all possibilities for OSINT progress by eliminating all positions with …
Six Degrees of Separation: Implications for Verifying Social Media Posted on September 18, 2012 | Leave a comment The Economist recently published this insightful article entitled” Six Degrees of Mobilisation: To what extent can social networking make it easier to find people and solve real-world problems?” The notion, six degrees of separation, comes from Stanley Milgram’s [small world] …
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