Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
U.S. Spy Agency Looks to Social-Media for “Open Source Intelligence”

From Wired.com In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in […]