We’re All Spies, Now—And Not Even Trump Can Hide
From Our Prying Eyes:
"In recent years the combination of the internet, cheap satellite imagery, powerful
consumer cameras and the information demands of a global economy have given
interested amateurs many of the same tools that, just a few decades ago, were the
exclusive purview of military intelligence agents and government spies.
Taking advantage of plane- and ship-tracking websites, commercial satellite imagery,
internet forums for aviation photographers and other social media, these amateurs
have become a new kind of hybrid journalist and spy. They call their practice "open-
source intelligence," or OSINT.
OSINT practitioners claim they're keeping people informed and holding government
accountable. “We the people shouldn't be the adversary that the government is hiding
their actions from,” Steffan Watkins, an independent imagery expert from Canada,
told The Daily Beast.
Governments predictably are less charitable. “Sharing seemingly harmless information
online can be dangerous to loved ones and your fellow Marines—and may even get
them killed,” the U.S. Marine Corps warns in its official handbook for social media use.
“Loose tweets destroy fleets,” the U.S. Air Force advised in 2015."
See:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/were-a...-eyes?ref=home
As OSINT geys more networked and effective, I wonder what sort of anti-1st-
amentment @#$^ the government will try to pull to clamp down on it?