On February 23, November 2013, the New York guest published an introduction? Another well-known name of hikins is brown? Moses, who has seventeen thousand followers on Weibo, is a financial manager in the industry. Ellits? Hikins's example proves that everything can happen in an era where people rely on massive amounts of information from the Internet every day.
New York uses eight pages to describe hikins as "perhaps the most important ammunition expert in the (Syria) War," for a person who has not received any professional training in ammunition and information science, this is a very high rating.
Hikins does not speak Arabic and has never been to the Middle East. He has been surfing the internet at Leicester's house and has not started online research until recently, just as a free hobby.
However, there is a basis for the description. Since his blog opened in 2012, hikins has discovered evidence of the Syrian army's use of a bundle bomb and has revealed the transfer of weapons from Iran to Syria. All he does is use a laptop and a pair of eyes that are good at understanding the truth.
This type of work is called open source intelligence. Hikins uses public and available materials, such as photos, videos, and media updates on the Internet, to piece together information about the Syrian conflict. His analysis is based on the blog content of the guardian and the New York Times, and his research is also cited by Human Rights Watch.
His strong interest in his blog and desire to obtain the truth in the Syrian war drive him from obscurity on his blog with the wisdom of a person, has become an internationally recognized expert in conflict analysis.
Hikins has established a unique social media Brand, a challenge victory. He successfully cracked rumors and false information and uncovered the essence of the Syrian war conflict.
In a larger scope, Brown? The story of Moses shows the great potential of open source intelligence. Brown's story shows that information can be published to the network for any reason and become a powerful tool for proper operations.
Breakthroughs in the big data age
The development of the two overlapping fields has greatly promoted the growth of open source intelligence.
First, the explosive growth of social media news has allowed us to access a large amount of real-time news from users. From Facebook, Twitter to Google, we are isolated from potential audiences around the world, with just a few clicks. As these tools increase global connectivity, people are increasingly willing to express their thoughts, opinions, and observations in the network space. The process of generating such information ultimately produces "a huge wealth of new digital sharing ".
Second, the rise of big data has completely changed the scope of open-source intelligence. The meaning of "Big Data" has been controversial, but it is often understood as "data exceeds the processing capability of traditional database systems ". It is estimated that about 1200 bytes of data are stored in the world, 90% of which were created in the past two years.
Social media is a good example of big data in practice. Users generate a 500-meter microblog and a 90-meter blog every day. Every minute, 100 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube. Social media is expanding at an astronomical scale.
Surprisingly, this network society has given rise to new analytical methods and opportunities. From daily security, counter-terrorism to civil war, information collected through public channels provides an unprecedented insight into the world. Here, the information you need may be like a haystack, but this can be done.
Ellits? Hikins extracts and references the video that has been uploaded to YouTube for several hours, and finally pieces it together by referencing the information from other websites and platforms, formed an analysis on the use of Syrian weapons.
But Brown? Moses adopts only one method. With the development of cutting-edge information and computing technologies, researchers are developing more complex algorithms, and the development of such analysis tools will also be able to obtain information. Combining manual search information with analysis tools is a new trend in using big data to obtain intelligence resources.
A recent demos report suggests that social media can also help police investigate cases. For example, Weibo and status updates can provide witness evidence and image evidence, or they can be used by the police to "measure the mood of the waves [1 ". Those depressing and sometimes surging emotions will eventually converge into continuous violence. Online Monitoring of these emotions can respond faster and take preventive actions in advance.
This is not open source intelligence that traditional consciousness understands, but more inclined to signal intelligence. Perhaps for this reason, researchers active in this field have created their own terminology: social media intelligence or socmint. However, in essence, open-source intelligence is obtained by analyzing public information or other resources.
Technological innovations inject new vigor into open source intelligence. Whether from Brown? Cyber investigators like Moses, or using analysis tools, are more valuable than ever before.
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