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Clandestine world of intelligence-gathering turns to an open market for data
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| The global explosion in Internet-based new media has made open source
| information invaluable to intelligence agencies, CIA Director Michael Hayden
| said on Friday at the ODNI Open Source Conference in Washington.
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http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=40954&dcn=todaysnews
Open-source intell gets governance
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| The director of the Central Intelligence Agency announced today the
| establishment of a board of governors that will set priorities and strategies
| for the intelligence community’s use of publicly available data.
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| CIA Director Michael Hayden said the new board of governors for open-source
| intelligence will be a forum that will meet quarterly, with its first session
| before the end of the year.Through its governance, users of open-source data
| will consider things such as information technology strategy and IT policy,
| centralization of open-source services, as well as standardization.
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http://www.fcw.com/online/news/153772-1.html
Spy Agencies Turn to Newspapers, NPR, and Wikipedia for Information
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| That's a common refrain in the intelligence community when the subject of
| so-called open-source information comes up. It's the kind of anecdote
| recounted over and over again this week at the intelligence community's
| second annual conference on the use of open-source information.
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http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/09/12/spy-agencies-turn-to-newspapers-npr-and-wikipedia-for-information.html
http://tinyurl.com/52w7zy
Homeland Security lacking 'open source' intelligence
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| The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has not met requirements to
| provide "open source" intelligence--that is, publicly available
| information--for state and local law enforcement, a new report shows.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10040939-38.html
Related:
Microsoft Critics Assigned PR "Spooks"
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| San Jose Mercury technology reporter Dan Gilmore recently discovered he's
| been assigned a special "owner" at one of Microsoft's public relations firms,
| Waggener-Edstrom. These spin-masters are attached to troublesome journalists
| like Gilmore who have the temerity to write uncomplimentary articles about
| the company or its products.
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| The really irksome reporters, according to documents spirited from the
| Waggener-Edstrom offices, are also assigned "buddies" at Microsoft itself.
| John Dodge, the editor of PC Week, has a special buddy at Microsoft, and Mary
| Jo Foley at Smart Reseller, is the subject of a "Mary Jo six month plan.''
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| These "owners" and "buddies" are just there to "help" the journalists, of
| course. How dare we think otherwise?
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http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/dirtytricks.shtml
A Different Kind of Open Source for a Different Kind of Intel
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| The U.S. intelligence community is increasingly relying on intelligence from
| public places -- what it calls "open source intelligence" -- to glean
| information about potential attacks and the plans of foreign governments.
| Open source intelligence makes up about 90 percent of what officials use,
| according to one estimate.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/62410.html
CIA enlists Google's help for spy work
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| US intelligence agencies are using Google's technology to help its agents
| share information about their suspects
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http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3652494.ece
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