Intelligence Agencies Fund Games for Spying + RECAP

On top of everything else…. Spy Games: Intelligence Agency to Fund Video Games for Spooks Sharon Weinberger Contributor Scientists say video games can increase concentration, help with learning and even improve decision-making skills. Now, in an effort to improve the work of spies, the intelligence community may also resort to using educational games. Phi Beta …

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Starting Point

2006: BASIC: Open Source Intelligence Familiarization Documents (Original) Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) leads to Information Operations (IO), which leads to Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2), which leads to Cyber-Command (CYCO6), a mis-nomer, but representing all information in all languages all the time, with every person and every artifact having their own IP …

Tom Atlee Proposes distributed-intelligence, crowd-sourcing participatory think tank for popular common-sense policies, unhindered by party affiliations and ideology

Phi Beta Iota: There is no other person we hold in higher esteem than Tom Atlee.  For America the Beautiful, at least, he is this generation’s Wise Man.  Below in his own words.  We urge one and all to contribute to his sustenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . …

Worth a Look: Momentum Crowdsourcing for Open Source Intelligence

MOMENTUM: REAL OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE Here’s a short essay on a new software tool my team built called Momentum. It does something pretty unusual and worthy of note.  It uses crowdsourcing (by leveraging the work of 500 million users on global social networks) to make open source intelligence gathering easy.* ___________________ Here are some real …