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Open Source Intelligence May Be Changing Old-School War
- jart 4y ago
- fourthark 4y agoThe article is talking about open source intelligence, not open source code. I think it's unfortunate that they reused the term... there's almost nothing in common between the disciplines.
- jart 4y agoNo they're talking about open source developers. There's a whole paragraph in the article where they talk about how America is at a disadvantage because countries like North Korea benefit from American openness while remaining closed themselves. The state could easily decide one day that it wants to turn off the spigot of generosity, and in order to do that, they'd have to suppress all the generous people.
- vimax 4y agoRead it again. Not about developers.
- _fat_santa 4y agoThis article seems to misuse the word “open source”, or at least uses it in a completely new context. It would have been better for them to use the term “open information”. Like when the article talked about the invasion of Ukraine, looking back the “open source information” we’re all the videos posted to TikTok. For us in the US and other parts of the world it was a brand new insight into a war. For the Russians it’s another intelligence angle.
- webmaven 4y ago"Open Source" in an intelligence context actually predates the software licensing context. Here is an example from 1993: https://books.google.com/books?id=zYQ4AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP3&dq=%22open+source%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj_uJ_rpPr3AhWSLH0KHYwTDUMQ6AF6BAgIEAM https://books.google.com/books?id=zYQ4AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP3&dq=%22... For that reason, the term introduced by Christine Peterson in 1998 was actually "Open Source Software": https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source-software https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source...
- pjc50 4y agoFlagged for dumb misreading to start a flamewar.
- tholdem 4y agoThe article has nothing to do with developers and open source software. It's about OSINT[1], open source intelligence. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_intelligence
- vintermann 4y agoAnd "OSINT" is a fad term for what used to be called journalism, preferred by journalists who sadly identify more with their countries intelligence services than with their fellow journalists. They often do good work, but it's a sad trend. In many ways it's Julian Assange's original vision for Wikileaks: collaborative (thus "wiki") analysis of verifiable public information, but co-opted by powerful interest groups and states.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- herunan 4y agoOSINT is just investigation using publicly-available information. Hence why open source in this context refers to open sources of information (usually online). OSINT was traditionally employed for criminal investigation, but is now growing in journalism. One example of a collective doing this kind work is https://www.bellingcat.com https://www.bellingcat.com
- stefantalpalaru 4y ago
- mikewarot 4y agoThe rise of global internet connectivity enables the remote gathering and confirmation of intelligence information on a scale that is clearly unprecedented in human history. There are now means for volunteers far afield to contribute in meaningful manner to their chosen ally.