Janine Römer | einzelgaengerin@protonmail.ch
“ The most familiar form of intelligence – so familiar that it is usually not recognized as intelligence – is open-source intelligence: information obtained from sources that are not attempting to conceal it. Open-source intelligence is almost the only form of intelligence practiced by scholars, reporters, and business people, but it also plays a major role in national intelligence. In the national case, typical open sources are newspapers, radio broadcasts, foreign government publications, propaganda, maps, and phone books. In industrial intelligence, advertisements and product literature are major sources.
Older open sources have now been joined by the Internet and the World Wide Web. Browsing the Web is practicing open-source intelligence. Google and more specialized search engines give their users access to information on an unprecedented scale. ”
- [*Privacy on the Line: The Po