OSINT stands for open source intelligence.
OSINT Concept
Nothing beats Three Days of the Condor, a 1975 American political thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Max von Sydow, based on the 1974 novel Six Days of the Condor by James Grady, brilliantly describing the very essence of OSINT:
“Listen. I work for the CIA. I am not a spy. I just read books! We read everything that’s published in the world. And we… we feed the plots – dirty tricks, codes – into a computer, and the computer checks against actual CIA plans and operations. I look for leaks, I look for new ideas… We read adventures and novels and journals. I… I… Who’d invent a job like that?”, says Joe Turner, an OSINT analyst from Three Days of the Condor caught in a whirlwind of spy intrigue.
Source: About OSINT
Recent posts from OSINT.org:
- Russia’s intelligence service worked for nearly a decade to recruit members of fringe U.S. political groups
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- Planet Signs Contract to Provide German Federal Agencies With Daily Satellite Imagery
- BXS Launches All-In-One Trade Surveillance Platform
- Esri Recognizes Italian Rail Agency for Modernizing Infrastructure
- Turkey begins an investigation into the origin of grain aboard a Russian ship
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- Unidentified operatives have been using the fitness tracking app Strava to spy on members of the Israeli military
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- Where Russia’s Stolen Grain Is Going
- Ayoob Entezari story is getting interesting
- Karma is the bitch
- Esri Integrates LightBox Data to Expand Geocoding for Canadian Content
- Corporate spying has become more of a general business risk
- Intelligence analysis is hobbled by a political culture
- Russia’s Wagner Group Set Landmines Near Tripoli
- Investigation into the explosions at the Vrbetice ammunition depot in Czechia in 2014
- War Criminal Identified
- Files from China’s Xinjiang provide fresh evidence of the abuse of mostly Muslim ethnic Uyghurs
- Qatari institutions wired $800,000 to an Islamic State “judge” who ordered the murder of Sotloff and James Foley
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