Espionage 2.0
We have already written about the notorious Intellipedia project - a network information collector for the 16 largest US intelligence agencies, built on the principle of Wikipedia and designed to combine so far virtually no interacting databases of these structures. However, as it turns out now, this is only the most obvious part of the process of "rearming" US intelligence with new tools for obtaining and processing information.
Clive Thompson, author of the 20-page article " Open-Source Spying " in the latest issue of the weekly Magazine app for the New York Times, writes:
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The idea of ​​attracting the “crowd” to intelligence activities undoubtedly fits very well with current trends, the so-called “social revolution”. But, you see, there is still a plot on which a simple person who spends his everyday life in a boring office is suddenly involved in the work of the secret services - such a plot we could only imagine at the heart of a comedy movie. But the more interesting are the serious intentions of the special services to bring this idea to life.
Of course, like any radical changes, the process of updating the special services faces a banal bureaucratic routine and a lack of understanding of the leaders of the “old school”, but these obstacles are not the main thing that alarms innovators. Just as journalism is now only trying to understand what the neighborhood with amateur reporters in the face of bloggers promises it, but at the same time it is already beginning to use their methods of work, intelligence is embarking on this path blindly, through trial and error.
The huge community, which, with external disunity, has within itself a clear and effective connection, allowing him in the blink of an eye to collect a complete picture of the scattered around the pieces - that's what the security services see their future. But what is successfully obtained in adolescents is not yet available for people who are considered to be the real intellectual elite of the planet.
Clive Thompson, author of the 20-page article " Open-Source Spying " in the latest issue of the weekly Magazine app for the New York Times, writes:
Spies are beginning to wonder why their technology has fallen to such a backward level. ... The solution may lie in interactive tools that teenagers around the world use to navigate through the debris of YouTube videos and argue online about their favorite groups. Ultra-secret information networks worth billions of dollars cannot help intelligence officers put together the keys to the worst terrorist plan in history. So, maybe it's time to try something radically new? Can blogs and wiki prevent the next September 11th?
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The idea of ​​attracting the “crowd” to intelligence activities undoubtedly fits very well with current trends, the so-called “social revolution”. But, you see, there is still a plot on which a simple person who spends his everyday life in a boring office is suddenly involved in the work of the secret services - such a plot we could only imagine at the heart of a comedy movie. But the more interesting are the serious intentions of the special services to bring this idea to life.
You would never think that these guys, who can stand a few steps from the president, think about such things, but they think. Intelligence is really passionate about connecting the dots, which exactly coincides with what all these social networks do in the spirit of Web 2.0.
Of course, like any radical changes, the process of updating the special services faces a banal bureaucratic routine and a lack of understanding of the leaders of the “old school”, but these obstacles are not the main thing that alarms innovators. Just as journalism is now only trying to understand what the neighborhood with amateur reporters in the face of bloggers promises it, but at the same time it is already beginning to use their methods of work, intelligence is embarking on this path blindly, through trial and error.
The huge community, which, with external disunity, has within itself a clear and effective connection, allowing him in the blink of an eye to collect a complete picture of the scattered around the pieces - that's what the security services see their future. But what is successfully obtained in adolescents is not yet available for people who are considered to be the real intellectual elite of the planet.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4789/
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