[FRIAM] US intelligence agencies "discover" blogs and wikis

[J T Johnson]

Interesting piece in the NYTimes (4 Dec 2006) that highlights a major
problem for the U.S. intelligence agencies (and, one might suppose, all
intelligence agencies) in that they can't communicate with each other.

Not that all bureaucrats WANT to share data, and therein lies the problem.
Still, some folks in the system see the value in decentralized intelligence
gathering.

Open Source Spying
The nation's intelligence agencies are giving their cold-war-era computer
systems a makeover. But will blogs and wikis really help spies uncover
terrorist plots?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/magazine/03intelligence.html

-- TJ

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