Fudge Sunday - Max Headroom, OSINT, and Today's Tom Sawyer

This week we take a look at Max Headroom, Open-Source INTelligence (OSINT), and today’s Tom Sawyer.

Let’s dig in…

First, OSINT discussion in this issue will be a fusion of the older terminology more than the newer terminology. Also, as someone that had science projects assigned during grade school for creating bomb shelters, air circulation systems, and effective food rationing plans – – – it feels as though the 1980s nostalgia and fears are repeating like history does.

While the origins of OSINT can be tracked back centuries, here in the USA the timer seems to start in the 1940s. For more interesting reading, there are former intelligence offices that now opine online.

For example, we’ll get into the reasons why this chart mattered a lot more for many in the last few weeks for real people providing Human intelligence (HUMINT) that are trying to exfiltrate stories from the field in horrific conditions.

Now, if you had told me that the following year I would witness a billionaire not just tweeting support but also enabling LEO satellite Internet systems to help a peaceful nation fighting against a hostile adversary, I would probably have said it sounded like a movie plot line. But, here we are.

Of course, there are always inherent OpSec tradeoffs in communications which can give away position.

There are also recent examples of how Imagery Intelligence (IMINT), Financial intelligence (FININT), and Human intelligence (HUMINT) combines with Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) to create innovative OSINT based upon earlier work that tracked the jet of the same billionaire is being used to track very visible assets in the form of jets and yachts of Russian Oligarchs.

In conclusion, the interesting thing about OSINT now in 2022 there is an ever increasing democratized access to network connectivity, enriched data sources, innovative data analysis tools, and ever more ubiquitous on-demand computing capabilities. As such, our modern day Max Headroom moment has now pushed past science fiction.

Source: Peart and Dubois

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