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catmanjan
on June 26, 2013
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The idea of a web site keeping a profile on me based on a conglomeration of my other profiles makes me think of it as an "open source" PRISM...
jcbrand
on June 26, 2013
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What exactly is "open source" about it?
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From a software sense nothing, hence the quotation marks, but as someone else described, open source means something different when talking about intelligence gathering.
limmeau
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Intelligence people call reading the newspaper "OSINT", open source intelligence. They'll claim there's more to it than reading the paper, of course.
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