open sourcerors

"Open source development and OSINT are conceptually linked because of
their inherent collaborative nature and wide focus, as well as an
emphasis on transparency in methods and sources. When employed
jointly, these two methods can serve to force a break from the culture
of secrecy in the intelligence community to an more open system that
is better suited to the challenges presented by increasingly networked
adversaries. The interaction between a new kind of knowledge
management (open source development) and collection (OSINT)
indiscriminately empowers government affiliated groups, positive
social activist networks, as well as terrorist and criminal networks.
Groups who take advantage of open source methods gain access to huge
pools of collective knowledge and the means to build networks to both
collect and distribute it, facilitating the horizontal movement of
information and knowledge. The possibility of the application of an
open source development system to the intelligence process allows for
the best practices of the IT industry to be applied to the exponentially
expanding quantity of open source material available to create the highest
quality intelligence products with the greatest utility." -- Freeing
knowledge, telling secrets: Open source intelligence and development,
http://epublications.bond.edu.au/cewces_papers/11