Re: [tlug] Open source intelligence

[Edward Middleton <edward@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:
> On 24/10/06, Edward Middleton <edward@example.com> wrote:
>
>> They obviously used the term 'open source' because in this
>> context its meaning is nice and ambiguous and suggests they are
>> contributing something back.
>
> I seriously doubt it. "Open source intelligence" is a military term
> dating back to at least WWI, before the US even had separate
> intelligence agencies (there was only Army Intelligence; no CIA, NSA,
> etc.). The military intelligence types probably are only vaguely aware
> that a thing called "Open Source software" exists, and I doubt it
> enters their minds at all when thinking of "open source intel", which
> existed long before ESR and Co. went "Eureka!".
>

Leave my conspiracy theory alone ;)  It would be interesting to know
whether public source intelligence is an IC term and if so what it means.

Edward