This presentation was part of a panel called "Young Analysts on the Value of Open Source," from the 2008 Open Source Intelligence Conference. A companion essay for this presentation is available here:
http://matthewburton.org/wordpress/opensourceintelligence/
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Open Source Conference: A Young Analyst's View of Open Source
1. DNI Open Source Conference
Panel: “Young Analysts Talk About
The Value Of Open Source”
Matthew Burton
matthew.s.burton@ugov.gov
matthewburton.org
September 11, 2008
42. DNI Open Source Conference
Panel: “Young Analysts Talk About
The Value Of Open Source”
Matthew Burton
matthew.s.burton@ugov.gov
matthewburton.org
September 11, 2008
45. “Anyone with reasonable smarts can have a
good idea for a Web property on
Monday and have something on the air
two weeks from Thursday.”
--Tim Bray
46. “Anyone with reasonable smarts can have a
good idea for a Web property on
Monday and have something on the air
two weeks from Thursday.”
--Tim Bray
Editor's Notes
What makes OS info good has nothing to do with the fact that it’s unclassified, and everything to do with its environment. The Web is better than a closed, silo-based network.
french press agency distributed this photo of iran testing four missiles. 1, 2, 3, 4
IMPORTANT POINT: All those journalists weren’t working together. The BBC people were working with video. The print people were working with photos. But the Web DID catch it, because it is a singular network with a singular community. Everyone can work with everything. weren’t on the same channel as the print media. So the media are out there showing very different photos, and they don’t know it.
IMPORTANT POINT: All those journalists weren’t working together. The BBC people were working with video. The print people were working with photos. But the Web DID catch it, because it is a singular network with a singular community. Everyone can work with everything. weren’t on the same channel as the print media. So the media are out there showing very different photos, and they don’t know it.
IMPORTANT POINT: All those journalists weren’t working together. The BBC people were working with video. The print people were working with photos. But the Web DID catch it, because it is a singular network with a singular community. Everyone can work with everything. weren’t on the same channel as the print media. So the media are out there showing very different photos, and they don’t know it.
(and by the afternoon, there were dozens of parodies.)
moral: this is what happens when everyTHING and everyBODY is on the same channel. if there were separate World Wide Webs--one for people who looked at photos, and another for people who looked at videos--it would have taken them a while to find the discrepancy. it would have taken an ESPECIALLY long time if the photo people never talked to the video people.
(and by the afternoon, there were dozens of parodies.)
moral: this is what happens when everyTHING and everyBODY is on the same channel. if there were separate World Wide Webs--one for people who looked at photos, and another for people who looked at videos--it would have taken them a while to find the discrepancy. it would have taken an ESPECIALLY long time if the photo people never talked to the video people.
(and by the afternoon, there were dozens of parodies.)
moral: this is what happens when everyTHING and everyBODY is on the same channel. if there were separate World Wide Webs--one for people who looked at photos, and another for people who looked at videos--it would have taken them a while to find the discrepancy. it would have taken an ESPECIALLY long time if the photo people never talked to the video people.
(and by the afternoon, there were dozens of parodies.)
moral: this is what happens when everyTHING and everyBODY is on the same channel. if there were separate World Wide Webs--one for people who looked at photos, and another for people who looked at videos--it would have taken them a while to find the discrepancy. it would have taken an ESPECIALLY long time if the photo people never talked to the video people.
(and by the afternoon, there were dozens of parodies.)
moral: this is what happens when everyTHING and everyBODY is on the same channel. if there were separate World Wide Webs--one for people who looked at photos, and another for people who looked at videos--it would have taken them a while to find the discrepancy. it would have taken an ESPECIALLY long time if the photo people never talked to the video people.
1400 8000px x 8000px images. broke them up into many more, much smaller images.
1400 8000px x 8000px images. broke them up into many more, much smaller images.
1400 8000px x 8000px images. broke them up into many more, much smaller images.
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
12,000 people, 560,000 images, 3,500 square miles in 3 days
Hypothetical: Could we do that? What if the IC had to do this on Intelink?
What’s the Web’s advantage? Manpower? They did have a lot of it here. And the IC could never dedicate 12,000 analysts to a single job like this.
What’s the Web’s advantage? Manpower? They did have a lot of it here. And the IC could never dedicate 12,000 analysts to a single job like this.
What’s the Web’s advantage? Manpower? They did have a lot of it here. And the IC could never dedicate 12,000 analysts to a single job like this.
What’s the Web’s advantage? Manpower? They did have a lot of it here. And the IC could never dedicate 12,000 analysts to a single job like this.
What’s the Web’s advantage? Manpower? They did have a lot of it here. And the IC could never dedicate 12,000 analysts to a single job like this.
What’s the Web’s advantage? Manpower? They did have a lot of it here. And the IC could never dedicate 12,000 analysts to a single job like this.
What’s the Web’s advantage? Manpower? They did have a lot of it here. And the IC could never dedicate 12,000 analysts to a single job like this.
What’s the Web’s advantage? Manpower? They did have a lot of it here. And the IC could never dedicate 12,000 analysts to a single job like this.
What’s the Web’s advantage? Manpower? They did have a lot of it here. And the IC could never dedicate 12,000 analysts to a single job like this.
What’s the Web’s advantage? Manpower? They did have a lot of it here. And the IC could never dedicate 12,000 analysts to a single job like this.
On the Web, if you want something, you just do it. No paperwork necessary. This is a philosophy and capability the IC should keep in mind if it wants to fully exploit not just open source, but its classified information as well. Analysts will always have too much information to be able to process quickly enough by themselves. In times like these, it's important that we have a IT AND bureaucratic infrastructure that will accommodate improvised solutions.
What makes OS info good has nothing to do with the fact that it’s unclassified, and everything to do with its environment. The Web is better than a closed, silo-based network.
something fundamentally wrong about the way we view and refer to OSINT, as if it’s mutually exclusive from all the other INTs.
We use “OSINT” for a blanket term to mean, “all that stuff that’s unclassified,” when actually, all of the other -INTs are at times unclassified. This doesn’t make them any less valuable. There are times when the nature of acquisition adds value: it helps if the enemy doesn’t know that you know something. (Of course, that comes with the risk of D&D.) The only UNIVERSAL qualitative difference between these two categories is the environment. knowledge of facts is useful no matter how we learned them. Once we're happy that something is an accepted fact, i don't see why it matters HOW we learned it. That said, I do think this right side is often better than the left side. Why?