Why OSINT Analysts Need to Manage Their Digital Identities

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When we talk about the work of gathering intelligence, most people conjure the image of a James Bond-esque spy, infiltrating an enemy organization under an assumed identity. But there’s another kind of intelligence gathering, just as important to commercial, military, diplomatic and political operations: open source intelligence, or OSINT for short. OSINT is gathered from publicly available information sources like the news, government documents and social media reports, among others. But in order to be effective, OSINT analysts have to be just as careful about concealing their online identities as clandestine operatives.

 

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