By David Bollero
February 20, 2012
Source : Publico.es
Los servicios de inteligencia intentan aprovechar las ventajas de las denominadas "fuentes abiertas"
Internet se ha convertido en uno de los mayores repositorios de datos para los servicios de inteligencia. La...
By Barak Ravid
January 31, 2012
Source : Haaretz
Private organizations associated with right-wing politics unofficially take over intelligence gathering, after lack of resources, shifting priorities and years of neglect, sources say.
The government and military have unofficially outsourced some of their intelligence work to private organizations that monitor anti-Israel incitement in the Palestinian media and are...
Source: http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081017/NEWS02/310179931
College students get plenty of assignments, but this one was different.
It came from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as a challenge to think tanks, security companies, collegiate teams and veterans of the U.S. intelligence community.
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By Viola Gienger
January 26, 2012
Source : Bloomberg
U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said cloud computing will play a major role as the nation’s spy agencies work to integrate computer and information systems to share more data securely.
Cloud computing has “huge potential for achieving savings and promoting integration,” Clapper told an audience today at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a...
January 26, 2012
Source : BBC News Technology
The FBI is seeking to develop an early-warning system based on material "scraped" from social networks.
It says the application should provide information about possible domestic and global threats superimposed onto maps "using mash-up technology".
The bureau has asked contractors to suggest possible solutions...
By Rachel Martin
January 22, 2012
Source : NPR
Secrets: the currency of spies around the world.
The rise of social media, hash-tags, forums, blogs and online news sites has revealed a new kind of secret — those hiding in plain sight. The CIA calls all this information "open source" material, and it's changing the way America's top spy agency does business.
NPR recently got a rare behind-the-scenes look at the CIA's Open Source Center....
By Philip Dorling
January 7, 2012
Source : The Sydney Morning Herald
THE federal government has outsourced law enforcement surveillance of environmental and other protest groups, with a key monitoring service operating from an inconspicuous Melbourne apartment block.
A private intelligence company, the National Open Source Intelligence Centre, works under contract for the Australian Federal Police and the federal Attorney-General's Department...
By Katherine Rushton
December 1, 2011
Source : The Telegraph
It lacks the romance of a furtive meeting in an Oxbridge college quad. But secret service chiefs hope this will be a far more effective method of recruiting the spies of the future.
GCHQ, the intelligence agency, has created an internet-based code-breaking game in an attempt track down candidates with the right skills for espionage in the computer age.
Rather...
By Neal Ungerleider
November 29, 2011
Source : Fast Company
DigitalGlobe, the Colorado-based imaging firm responsible for much of Google Earth's, Bing Maps', and Google Maps' content, has a new satellite on the way. The WorldView-3 is a super-high-resolution remote-sensing satellite slated for a 2014 launch. Ball Aerospace &...
By Dan Parsons
December 2011
Source : National defense magazine
The Pentagon and U.S. intelligence community spend billions of dollars each year trying, with mild success at best, to predict the future.
They organize elaborate wargames, develop computer algorithms to digest information and rely on old-fashioned aggregation of professional opinion.
Past intelligence failures have been costly and damaging to U.S....
