Open Source Spying

eldavojohn writes "The New York Times is running a very lengthy but amazingly interesting article on the short history of open source software and information on the inside of the intelligence community. The article discusses the transformation of the intelligence community from fighting the Cold War with traditional information exchange to fighting terrorism today utilizing things like wikis & blogs. From the end of the article, 'Today's spies exist in an age of constant information exchange, in which everyday citizens swap news, dial up satellite pictures of their houses and collaborate on distant Web sites with strangers. As John Arquilla told me, if the spies do not join the rest of the world, they risk growing to resemble the rigid, unchanging bureaucracy that they once confronted during the cold war. "Fifteen years ago we were fighting the Soviet Union," he said. "Who knew it would be replicated today in the intelligence community?"' You may recall that the CIA now has their own classified Wiki. I think it's interesting that the 9/11 Report recommended that United States agencies such as the DoD, CIA & FBI learn to share information more freely to overcome terrorism and now they're turning to internet community applications to accomplish that."

Comments

American propaganda bull#@)%&

[Petkov]

Let's get a few things straight once and for all: There is NO such thing as Al Queda the way the corporate owned media is trying to scare us iwht. Try those fables on little American minds thank you very much. But iut appears even Americans with their low inteligence are begining to "get it". There is NO more "terr'rism" today than there was let's say 10 or 20 or 50 years ago. Yet another government lie repeated ad noseum by the corporate ownded media designed to scare us into submition. The "war" in Iraq is NOT about: 1. finding imaginary weapons of mass distactions or 2. bringing Saddom sorry Saddam to "justice" or 3. bringing "freedom and democracy" to the Middle East It is simply yet another invasion to control THE MOST important natural resourse today - OIL. American propaganda is SO predicable. It is begining to resemble Soviet Union propaganda