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“Open-source intelligence is dramatically democratising the ability…to collect important information. And that’s bad for the United States,” @AmyZegart, a political scientist at @Stanford, explains how open-source intelligence can disrupt geopolitics

 

https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1425962854272880643

 

Our weekly podcast on the science and technology making the news. This week: John Brennan, a former director of the CIA, on how open-source techniques affect secret intelligence.

AMATEURS, ACTIVISTS and academics are using technology and open-source data to uncover state secrets. Shashank Joshi, The Economist’s defence editor, explores how open-source intelligence is disrupting statecraft and asks John Brennan, a former director of the CIA, how these techniques are being used alongside secret intelligence to detect missile silos in China.

 

Guests include Elliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, an open-source intelligence collective; Melissa Hanham, affiliate at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation; and Dr Amy Zegart, author of “Spies, Lies and Algorithms”. Runtime: 31 min

https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2021/08/10/how-open-source-intelligence-is-disrupting-statecraft