Eurosint Forum

Source: Eurasia Review

U.S. Homeland Security is monitoring websites, social platforms and blogs that are writing or posting articles related to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a document on the Homeland Security website.

Source: Blog Newsweek "Declassified"

By: Mark Hosenball

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released today a report that critically examines the relevance of the U.S. intelligence community to the counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan titled Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan. The authors, including Major General Michael T. Flynn, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence in Afghanistan, argue that the United States' intelligence apparatus still finds itself unable to answer fundamental questions about the environment in which U.S.

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation

Government Agencies Withholding Information on Data-Gathering from Facebook, Twitter, and Other Online Communities
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), working with the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Samuelson Clinic), filed suit today against a half-dozen government agencies for refusing to disclose their policies for using social networking sites for investigations, data-collection, and surveillance.

Source: FederalTimes.com
By GREG RINCKEY
November 02, 2009

If you hold a security clearance or if you ever want to apply for one, be mindful of your postings and contacts online, particularly on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. These sites pose risks to gaining and keeping a security clearance.

Source: findingdulcinea.com

October 21, 2009

by James Sullivan
The CIA's investment arm recently bought a stake in a company developing software that monitors social media conversations. What else has the U.S. Intelligence Community done to harness social media and the Web?
CIA Seeks Advanced Monitoring of Social Media Sphere

Source: dodbuzz.com 

By Colin Clark Tuesday, October 20th 

For decades America's spies cultivated the idea that they knew things no one else did and got the information from sources no one else knew about.

Then came 911 and the rules got rewritten as the veil got torn from the intelligence community's shoulders. Open source information - stuff anyone with a brain and a healthy interest in finding something out - is now a key tool for our spies.

Source: defpro.com

October 20, 2009

Since January 2009, ESG has been conducting a technical study on future EU border surveillance (EUROSUR).

The creation of a European border surveillance system (EUROSUR) aims at preventing unauthorised border crossings, increasing the internal security of the EU by containing cross-border crime and reducing the number of people endangering their lives in the attempt to illegally immigrate to the EU.

By WILLIAM S. LIND

Published: April 29, 2009

United Press International

 Source: Techcrunch

“Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to see the day’s newspaper. Well, it’s not as far-fetched as it may seem.”

Thus begins this video of a 1981 KRON report predicting the rise of news reporting on the internet.

You need to see this, it’s pure gold.