Open-source intelligence under one name or another has been around for hundreds of years.

The company continues to provide open-source intelligence in the defence, security, aerospace and transportation sectors.

The second strategy was using open-source intelligence methods to do cyberspace searching for results related to the challenge.

The Department of Homeland Security has an active open-source intelligence unit.

Maltego is an open-source intelligence and forensics application developed by Paterva.

Reporting produced by the service is used as open-source intelligence by elements of the British Government and commercial customers.

In issuing its July 2004 report, the 9/11 Commission recommended the creation of an open-source intelligence agency, but without further detail or comment.

The intelligence community has historically downplayed Osint (open-source intelligence).

Indeed it reflects a growing consensus that open-source intelligence has been neglected, in part because it lacks the attraction of stolen secrets.

Mr. Tefft worked for Orion, which provided the police with terrorism information from its database, including news articles and materials known as open-source intelligence.

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is intelligence collected from publicly available sources.

Over the years reliable sources provided notably divergent estimates of the personnel strength of the Indian Air Force after analysing open-source intelligence.

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) collection/processing A wide variety of vendors sell information products specifically within this category.

Open-source journalism formerly referred to the standard journalistic techniques of news gathering and fact checking, reflecting open-source intelligence a similar term used in military intelligence circles.

It carried nightly (Mon-Fri) the "Loftus Report" featuring the intelligence commentator John Loftus on current, war-related, open-source intelligence.

The law enforcement OSINT community applies open-source intelligence (OSINT) to the prediction, prevention, investigation, and prosecution of criminals including terrorists.

It was acquired in 2007 by IHS Inc., and its open-source intelligence databases and publications continue to be produced under the IHS Jane's and IHS brands.

Another move will establish a center at the C.I.A. that will focus for the first time on the collection of open-source intelligence, a move that General Hayden said might ultimately reduce the need to steal secrets.

With its roots in market research, 'competitive intelligence' has been described as the 'application of principles and practices from military and national intelligence to the domain of global business'; it is the business equivalent of open-source intelligence.

A fourth, but less publicized audience, consists of intelligence officers and agents who monitor broadcasts for both open-source intelligence clues to the broadcasting state's policies and for hidden messages to foreign agents operating in the receiving country.

By contrast, Osint, or open-source intelligence, is a low-cost way to try to understand the Islamic militancy that fuels Al Qaeda or to track subtle shifts in the public statements of Kim Jong Il, the eccentric North Korean dictator.

Readex, which remains a division within NewsBank, offers the Archive of Americana, World Newspaper Archive and digital editions of open-source intelligence (OSINT) materials, including the Foreign Broadcast Information Service and the Joint Publications Research Service.

Prior to the establishment of Garten Rothkopf, Rothkopf was the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Intellibridge Corporation, a leading provider of international analysis and open-source intelligence for the U.S. national security community and selected investors, financial organizations and other corporations.