The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference (EISIC 2012) The Premier European Conference on Counterterrorism and Criminology Odense, Denmark August 22-24, 2012 http://www.eisic.org, http://www.eisic.eu Co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society ——————— Call for Papers DUE 22 APRIL 2012 ———————
SwiftRiver Throws a Lifeline to People Drowning in Information There’s a problem that constantly plagues us in this day of information overload, and that is the ability to sift the stream of incoming information into the bits that are valuable from those that aren’t. It’s a tough issue that we’ve been working on at Ushahidi …
If we accept this unnamed official’s argument at face value, then why is this program, and those like it, classified at the special access compartmented level. Could it be that the object of the excessive secrecy is keep the cost and some of the performance data from the American people so that they do not …
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: Real Cost vs Real Value of Drones? + RECAP”
An outstanding piece of bargaining power for Iran with both Russia and China….don’t expect UN sanctions anytime soon….. Updated 11 Dec 2011 to add more stories with photos and comment. Iran won’t return U.S. drone it claims to have Iran Shows Video It Says Is of U.S. Drone Zakaria and Baer: Downed U.S. drone an …
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My experience with GCHQ was that they were able to conduct better processing and anaysis than NSA at consideribly less cost. I remember one particularly difficult puzzle that I was trying to work out using the latest contactor designed programs (vapor ware) and getting nowhere. An analyst (and friend) at GCHQ managed to solve the puzzle using the …
Continue reading “Richard Wright: Technology Not A Substitute for Brains”
Here is another posting related to this topic to balance the earlier piece from the Washington Post. No, China Does Not Have 3,000 Nuclear Weapons A study from Georgetown University incorrectly suggests that China has 3,000 nuclear weapons.The estimate is off by an order of magnitude. By Hans M. Kristensen EXTRACT: According to the International …
Source Phi Beta Iota: This article, written in 2007, remains the standard in the field for both brevity and authoritativeness. Business Intelligence is data mining, not intelligence. Competitive Intelligence focuses on competitors and does not do 360 degree holistic analytics. The modern term for a full service program is Commercial Intelligence, which uses only open …
