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Validarea surselor, fundament al OSINT
Validating sources basis of OSINT

Author(s): Sanda Gavrila, Dan Barbu
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: National Institute for Intelligence Studies
Keywords: sources’ validation; content analysis; intelligence cycle

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays, evaluating open source credibility is a MUST due to huge amount of available data, as well as to the ever increasing costs of classified data collection. In an ocean of multiple intelligence sources, including the Internet, analysts must be able to identify reliable sources. The alternative is to evaluate each and every piece of information gathered from any kind of source of intelligence interest. Since analysts cannot be specialists on multiple subjects / topics, they have to rely on those open sources that provide them all the useful information they need. A credible source offers „reasonable grounds for being believed”.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 71-78
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian
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