OSINT sources can be divided up into six different categories of information flow:
• Media, print newspapers,
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Collecting open-source intelligence is achieved in a variety of different ways, such as:
• Social Media Intelligence, which is acquired from viewing or observing a subjects on… See more

OSINT is defined in the United States of America by Public Law 109-163 as cited by both the U.S. Director of National Intelligence and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), as intelligence "produced from publicl… See more

OSINT practices have been documented as early as the mid-19th century in the United States and early 20th century in the United Kingdom.
OSINT in the United States traces its origins to the 1941 … See more

A main hindrance to practical OSINT is the volume of information it has to deal with ("information explosion"). The amount of data being distributed increases at a rate that it becomes difficult to evaluate sources in intelligenc… See more

The OSINT Foundation is a professional association for OSINT practitioners in the United States Intelligence Community. It is open to U.S. Citizens and seeks to raise the prominence of the open-source intelligenc… See more

• Ashley Feinberg
• Bellingcat
• Co-occurrence networks
• Dan Butler (civil servant)
• DARPA TIDES program… See more