#129 Eliot Jardines on Open Source Intelligence

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorsement by the Information Professionals Association.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During this episode, Eliot Jardines describes the world of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), publicly available information (PAI), and why it matters to national security.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Research Questions</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Eliot suggests interested students and researchers take a look at the following questions:</span></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The growing prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) content on social media and other publicly available information (PAI) sources represents a challenge for open-source intelligence (OSINT) practitioners – what new tradecraft (or tactics, techniques, and procedures) is required?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Does the experiential nature of the virtual reality environment (such as Meta) differ sufficiently from traditional social media that different exploitation tradecraft (or tactics, techniques, and procedures) is needed?</span></li> </ol> <p><strong>Resources</strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;">:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href= "https://www.osintfoundation.com"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">OSINT Foundation</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href= "https://www.wsj.com/articles/rise-of-open-source-intelligence-tests-u-s-spies-11670710806"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">WSJ Article: Rise of Open-Source Intelligence Tests U.S. Spies</span></a></li> </ul> <p><a href= "https://information-professionals.org/episode/cognitive-crucible-episode-129"> <strong