Review: The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook–Guide for the Serious Searcher

Ran Hock 6 Stars–The ONE Essential Reference March 13, 2011 I’ve known Ran Hock for close to twenty years, and now that Mary Ellen Bates (MEB) and Reva Basch are retired (see their last books below), Ran is more or less the last man standing in the independent information brokerage domain, at least that I …

John Seely Brown’s New Culture of Learning and US Unified Community Action Network (US UCAN)

in a world of constant flux a person who is not curious is screwed. John Seeley Brown In the past eight weeks as I have become more familiar with Internet2’s award to build a backbone to connect upwards of 200,000 unified community anchor institutions into a national network and have put this knowledge alongside that …

US Intelligence Unwitting of Most Open Sources

From my friends at Intelligence Online…. Used extensively by protesters in Egypt and Tunisia, Facebook and other social networking websites contain a wealth of useful intelligence.  However, knowing how to exploit that information is another matter. During a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on February 4, Senator Dianne Feinstein complained to Stephanie …

Search: utilization osint resource guide

Not the language we’ve been using.  OSINT Handbook gets you there.  In any event, here are the two “top guns” plus the Handbooks: 2011 OSINT Discovery Toolkit–Reuser’s Repertorium 2010 Handbook Online for Internet Tools and Resources for Creating Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) by Dr. Ran Hock, Chief Training Officer, Online Strategies, Inc. Three still standard …

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 …