The intelligence community has gone from scarcity to surfeit in terms of information, and it must adopt a new paradigm or lose the advantages it has from improved collection, according to a retired ...

The Ukraine conflict has blown open the door on how open-source information — broadly defined as publicly and commercially available data — can be a game-changer in war and peace. The broad array of ...

An open source panopticon—from commercial big data aggregation to information infrastructure across mobile, smart devices, and social media—is reshaping the way intelligence is collected and used in ...

The U.S. government’s “Open Source Center,” formerly the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, has largely disappeared from the public discourse—in part because all of its information can now only be ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Zoe Thomas: Last fall, as Russian troops began massing near Ukraine's border, a ...

The intelligence community continues to have an open-source intelligence (OSINT) problem. While capturing unclassified and openly available information is easier than ever, turning it into actionable ...

For months now, a large and very active community of digital sleuths has been closely tracking the escalating crisis in Ukraine. These people have been using open-source intelligence to investigate ...

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Open-source online imagery can play a vital role in investigating and prosecuting alleged crimes – but only if courts can reliably assess its authenticity. Unfortunately, what we see online can’t ...

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