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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The United States Intelligence Community (IC) is drowning in information. Analysts are losing the war against volume. The next huge "big mistake" won't come from a failure to connect the dots, but instead from missing dots buried in a mountain of noise. Every day, reports from human sources, satellite photography, and signal intercepts flood analysts in growing volumes. In the past decade, this classified flood has been doubled by a tsunami of "open source" information (OSINT)-unclassified, publicly available information from publications, blogs, YouTube videos, Twitter feeds, and so on. Over the past decade, the IC has learned to better collect and use OSINT in its analysis. Though armed with the most expensive and elaborate high-tech tools to manage big data, the IC is running faster to stay in the same place.
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