Open Source Intelligence

Intelligence for national security purposes gathered from non-classified sources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_intelligence

Proceedings from a 1992-7 conferences: http://www.oss.net/Proceedings

Oss Net (last "what's new" Jan'00): http://www.oss.net/ "sponsors an annual conference for intelligence professionals from all walks of life and all countries of the world", founded by Robert David Steele

Naval Open Source Intelligence is a digital library of world naval operational news curated from open source intelligence (WebLog using Userland Manila): http://www.nosi.org/

Comprehensive guide to economic and open-source intelligence-related resources on the Web, as well as an overview of commercial intelligence enterprises.: http://www.fas.org/irp/wwwecon.html

A different (non-military) spin comes from Open Flows.

There's a Yahoo OSINT group run by The Intelligence Network (http://www.intellnet.org/). Around 50 msgs/day. There are others: terrorism, spynews, ampm, InTheShadows, Israels-Challenge... all hosted on Yahoo Groups.

a 2006 conference http://www.echochamberproject.com/osint


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