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I never liked this term. Why is the term "Open Source" used to refer to publicly available information? Something like "PAT" would have been a better acronym: Public Available Information. Do we refer to street dogs as open source dogs?
> "PAT" would have been a better acronym: Public Available Information. informaTion? > Do we refer to street dogs as open source dogs? No, but we don't call them Public Available Dogs either.
I never liked this term. Why is the term "Open Source" used to refer to publicly available information? Something like "PAT" would have been a better acronym: Public Available Information. Do we refer to street dogs as open source dogs?
> Why is the term "Open Source" used to refer to publicly available information? Well, why not? "Source" has long referred to available information. In fact, you probably won't have to read HN long before you encounter a "source plz"-type meme, intended to mean something akin to: "Please point me to the available information that supports your claim." "Open" has long referred to available information that is accessib…
> Is your reaction, perhaps, because you are accustomed to "open source" being used in the software sense?
Yes exactly. I feel like a different term should be used here, because open source is already a widely established term in software.
I never liked this term. Why is the term "Open Source" used to refer to publicly available information? Something like "PAT" would have been a better acronym: Public Available Information. Do we refer to street dogs as open source dogs?
Or PINT: Public INT.
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> "PAT" would have been a better acronym: Public Available Information. informaTion? > Do we refer to street dogs as open source dogs? No, but we don't call them Public Available Dogs either.
My bad - messed up the acronym!
I never liked this term. Why is the term "Open Source" used to refer to publicly available information? Something like "PAT" would have been a better acronym: Public Available Information. Do we refer to street dogs as open source dogs?
2003: Public intelligence refers to sources of information freely available to the individual to be the basis for it's role as a responsible and critical citizen as part of a group or state.
Public Intelligence is associated with the application of Open source intelligence (OSInt) to empower the public in its dealings with all forms of organization, and most especially government. It is an applied variant of Collective intelligence.
It was inspired by the 1978 Colby book:
"Intelligence must accept the end of its special status in the American government, and take on the task of informing the public of its nature and its activities as any other department or agency. . . . By far the most effective manner of accomplishing the task . . . is by letting the public benefit directly from the products of intelligence, its information and assessments. " --former DCI William Colby, Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA, Simon & Schuster, 1978, pp. 459-60.
I put it together for your viewing pleasure: https://elib.at/index.php?title=Public_Intelligence_-_Glossa... enjoy
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SWIM's recommendation for anyone wanting to learn is to sign up for Breachforum and read up on all of the contents in their OSINT subforum [1] where you can ask questions too. If you're willing to boogey on into the grey area, you can even download leaked datasets from BreachForum, Leakbase.io, etc. to make your job a lot easier if it involves identifying people online - for example a few databases like AT&T customer…
SWIM's recommendation for anyone wanting to learn is to sign up for Breachforum and read up on all of the contents in their OSINT subforum [1] where you can ask questions too. If you're willing to boogey on into the grey area, you can even download leaked datasets from BreachForum, Leakbase.io, etc. to make your job a lot easier if it involves identifying people online - for example a few databases like AT&T customer…
A site with a "grey area", which does not work without running a third party Javascript, and hosted in in Russia makes me a bit twitchy.
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> Why is the term "Open Source" used to refer to publicly available information? Well, why not? "Source" has long referred to available information. In fact, you probably won't have to read HN long before you encounter a "source plz"-type meme, intended to mean something akin to: "Please point me to the available information that supports your claim." "Open" has long referred to available information that is accessib…
I agree that individually those terms convey the exact thing as publicly available information. > Is your reaction, perhaps, because you are accustomed to "open source" being used in the software sense? Yes exactly. I feel like a different term should be used here, because open source is already a widely established term in software.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why is the term "Open Source" used to refer to publicly available information? Well, why not? "Source" has long referred to available information. In fact, you probably won't have to read HN long before you encounter a "source plz"-type meme, intended to mean something akin to: "Please point me to the available information that supports your claim." "Open" has long referred to available information that is accessib…
I agree that individually those terms convey the exact thing as publicly available information. > Is your reaction, perhaps, because you are accustomed to "open source" being used in the software sense? Yes exactly. I feel like a different term should be used here, because open source is already a widely established term in software.
I never liked this term. Why is the term "Open Source" used to refer to publicly available information? Something like "PAT" would have been a better acronym: Public Available Information. Do we refer to street dogs as open source dogs?