-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [EPIC_IDOF] New US intelligence center to exploit publicly available information Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:15:06 -0500 From: Richard M. Smith <rms@computerbytesman.com> To: EPIC_IDOF@mailman.epic.org http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read.html?id=5315 New US intelligence center to exploit publicly available information WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (PG) - US intelligence chief John Negroponte announced Tuesday the creation of a new CIA-managed center to exploit publicly available information for intelligence purposes. The so-called Open Source Center will gather and analyze information from a host of sources from the Internet and commercial databases to newspapers, radio, video, maps, publications and conference reports. Douglas Naquin, the center's director, said it will build on the work of the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, which once monitored and translated foreign radio brodcasts but has since expanded its reach to other media. He said a key difference will be that the center aims to spread its findings and expertise across the US intelligence community, which consists of 15 agencies. "Generally what we go against is what's going to have the biggest intelligence impact where open sources can play an important role that either may or may not be covered by more clandestine intelligence activity or will augment it in some way," he told AFP. The FBIS' strength has been in tracking media trends that show, for instance, how foreign publics are responding to particular US policies. But in recent years a group at the FBIS also has been applying data mining techniques to analyze massive volumes of informaiton on the Internet or commercial databases, Naquin said. He said they are "trying to use what we call the volume problem against itself in some type of judo fashion -- you know, the more volume the better -- so we can kind of get some sense of where the trends are and what the buzz is on certain topics, or who's connected to whom." _______________________________________________ EPIC_IDOF mailing list EPIC_IDOF@mailman.epic.org https://mailman.epic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/epic_idof ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen@leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]