The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Robert David Steele To appear in Intelligence Tradecraft for the Third Millennium (Romania) DOC (7 Pages): Open Source Intelligence 1.3 Intelligence is the art and science of evidence-based decision-support. Intelligence is not defined by its inputs (spies, secrecy, money, risk) but rather by its outputs – tailored actionable decision-support. In this …
Enterprise Search Vendors: One Way to Move Past Failure
Unasur opens Defense School to elaborate a shared doctrine of peace and stability The Union of South American Nations, Unasur will celebrate this Friday its eighth anniversary with the official opening of the South American Defense School (Esude) created to instruct on defense and security issues, both at civil and military level, following ‘the principles …
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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 CIA Director Can’t See the Ground from the Ivory Tower (Arkin in Gawker) The CIA gets a makeover (Ignatius in WashPost) The truth about that CIA makeover (Schmitt in Fox News)
Security flaw gave researcher the power to erase every video on YouTube Today’s tale of apocalyptic internet near-misses comes from software developer Kamil Hismatullin, who discovered a security flaw in YouTube that allowed him to delete any video he wanted—or all of them, if he so desired. Fortunately, he did not so desire (although he apparently …
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Search Engine Optimization: Chasing Semantic Search I have read a number of articles about search engine optimization (SEO) and Web search. From my point of view, the SEO sector wants to do more than destroy relevance. SEO seeks to undermine the meaning of discourse. For some marketers, the destruction of meaning is a good thing. …
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