Regarding the Definition of OSINT in Public Law
The definition of OSINT in U.S. Code is a congressional finding, not a binding mandate. Services retain the authority to define the discipline to meet their own operational and policy needs.
The definition of OSINT in U.S. Code is a congressional finding, not a binding mandate. Services retain the authority to define the discipline to meet their own operational and policy needs.
Commercially available location data is probabilistic telemetry, not GPS gospel. Centroid bias, time-distance jumps, and replay are the three artifacts most likely to lead an analyst astray.
Why "Open Source Intelligence" should never be hyphenated. The hyphen describes a kind of product. Without it, the phrase names a profession, and in bureaucracies language signals legitimacy.
When a sanctioned oligarch's yacht switches off its AIS beacon, it does not vanish. A walkthrough of MarineTraffic, yacht-watchers, geolocated social media, and the tenders that give the ship away.