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OSINT is defined as intelligence activities obtained by passing through a filter (by analysing) that decides whether publicly available information — collected for a specific purpose without requiring any confidentiality — carries the quality of intelligence.
Looking at OSINT sources, they are listed as newspapers, magazines, radio, television, the internet, blogs, reports, press conferences, official data, speeches, weather and meteorological warnings, conferences, symposia, professional publications, and academic documents. What gave rise to OSINT was the widespread adoption of the internet and the enrichment of open sources through the proliferation of media outlets. OSINT has emerged as an affordable and very fast resource.
Open source intelligence is defined as the processing of information found in open sources to transform it into intelligence. The fact that OSINT is financially inexpensive and generally easily accessible reveals its advantages, while the inability to access certain information through OSINT environments (such as covert activities, terrorism, or organised crime) reveals the weaknesses of OSINT sources.
One of the greatest reasons why Open Source Intelligence has diversified and become richer is the use and proliferation of the internet and social media tools. The spread of social media — led by Google — has enabled a tremendous circulation and production of information. Furthermore, processes of personal interpretation of information are enabled through blogs and micro-blogs (Twitter, Medium), while YouTube has begun to visualise information.
The Wikileaks documents that came to our attention in recent years have produced significant data regarding open source intelligence. Some of the information in the Wikileaks documents consists of information that diplomats obtained from conversations with other diplomats at cocktails, receptions, dinners, and similar events — conversations that could be classified as semi-open source. Documents belonging to many institutions and organisations in our country have also been published on Wikileaks, and many people have been able to access the contents of those documents through this channel.
As a result, it is known that between 60 and 80 percent of intelligence is obtained from open sources. However, the ease with which it can be obtained has sometimes led to open information being underestimated. Today’s technology world has proven that, when used correctly, serious intelligence activities can also emerge from it.
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