> That's the first time I've heard "open source" used to refer to a warez site. I think "open-source intelligence" [0] is probably a little more commonly used

> That's the first time I've heard "open source" used to refer to a warez site. I think "open-source intelligence" [0] is probably a little more commonly used but both terms basically refer to the same thing -- the acquiring and/or gathering of data or information from public, or "open", sources. Originally, it was mostly a government/intelligence thing: > Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is data collected from publicly available sources to be used in an intelligence context. In the intelligence community, the term "open" refers to overt, publicly available sources (as opposed to covert or clandestine sources). More recently, it has been used to refer to the act of gathering information by searching the Internet. > Is this overloading of the term being seeded by someone in order to, in a roundabout way, discredit the open source movement? To be clear, this usage of "open-source" predates open-source software and "the open source movement" by a few decades, at least. Additionally, as the Wikipedia article explicitly points out (in the first paragraph), "it is not related to open-source software". --- [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSINT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSINT