Forwarded from: William Knowles <wk (at) c4i.org> http://www.nextgov.com/mobile/2012/07/social-media-plays-growing-role-open-source-intelligence-experts-say/57143/ By Eric Katz July 31, 2012 Nextgov.com Analysts increasingly are turning to social media forums such as Facebook and Twitter to gather valuable information that can be used to help predict social, cultural and political shifts, and events before they might otherwise be apparent, intelligence community veterans Tuesday said at a panel discussion on open-source intelligence hosted by Government Executive. "We take a large look at the world and see if there's a surprise out there," said Patrick O’Neil, analytic director of the Open Source Center for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. "We're trying to avoid a surprise." The intelligence community has long debated the value of open source intelligence, which is collected from public data, as opposed to covert or clandestine sources. While the panelists all were proponents of open source intelligence, they noted although social media offers significant new collection sources, its role should not be overstated. "There are adopters of technology but that doesn't mean they carry the voice of a nation or an entire populous," said Craig Parisot, chief operating officer at Invertix, a technology company with more than a dozen patents in messaging, search and data mining innovations. [...] *==============================================================* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen Alfred. M. Gray, USMC ================================================================ C4I.org - Computer Security, & Intelligence - http://www.c4i.org *==============================================================* -- Learn how to be a Pen Tester, CISSP, ISSMP, or ISSAP with Expanding Security online. Come to a free class and see how good and fun the program really is. http://www.expandingsecurity.com/PainPillReceived on Wed Aug 01 2012 - 02:15:37 PDT
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