Open Source Center Runs Closed Intel Shop
Also from WaTech –
The OSC [Open Source Center] was established just a year ago, incorporating as its foundation the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a division of the CIA. Its mission is to mine “the world’s unguarded knowledge,” from all the channels available — the Internet, print, broadcast media, podcasts, anything that contains information, in any language, from any country — and glean all the data contained there. The data is archived, and OSC analysts can then draw upon it in response to queries from all levels of government; Naquin said that in addition to the intelligence community, the center fields requests from the Defense Department, civilian agencies and state and local law enforcement.
Someone doesn’t understand open source at a very fundamental level. Is there a real reason why this data and the associated analysis is not made open to the public?
-Shlok
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