Open source intel is a vast field, any written piece stateing anything about a government or its activities is valuable intellegence to a forign power. This is a double edged sword enough foregn govt's can look at CNN, The New York Times, hell, even/. and get a good idea of how things are going in this country. The problem is sorting out what is redundant, and what pieces of intellegence are accually worth the time and effort, an accually rather small percentage. a very time consuming process, i don't know how many of you are paying attention to military news, but the us army just involentarilly extended all mi posisitons in an effort to combat this problem (again another piece of open source news better not known by people who don't have any business there, but it needs to be said) so the gov't is workin the problem, but the amount of open souce intel out there is dauting, and combined with all the accual human intellegence, imigary intellegence and signal intellegece thats constatly coming in, unfortunitly not everything can get the full attention it deserves.
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Open source intel is a vast field, any written piece stateing anything about a government or its activities is valuable intellegence to a forign power. This is a double edged sword enough foregn govt's can look at CNN, The New York Times, hell, even /. and get a good idea of how things are going in this country. The problem is sorting out what is redundant, and what pieces of intellegence are accually worth the time and effort, an accually rather small percentage. a very time consuming process, i don't know how many of you are paying attention to military news, but the us army just involentarilly extended all mi posisitons in an effort to combat this problem (again another piece of open source news better not known by people who don't have any business there, but it needs to be said) so the gov't is workin the problem, but the amount of open souce intel out there is dauting, and combined with all the accual human intellegence, imigary intellegence and signal intellegece thats constatly coming in, unfortunitly not everything can get the full attention it deserves.