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“Social media is a new form of signals intelligence”

[…]The new generation of tools allow U.S. spy agencies to look for trends and warning signs of potential national security crises,  They allow intelligence agencies to zero in on social-media postings during a set period from a defined geographic area spanning a few square miles, an entire country, or a continent, he said. Analysts also can take a Twitter message or other posting and uncover connections between the author and others in the social-media universe; once they find a target’s contacts, analysts can determine the physical location of the contacts—in essence applying the social media network to a real-world map. […]

 LTG. Michael Flynn, Defence Intelligence Agency director

vara bungas: ģenerālleitnants ir tik runātīgs, iespējams tādēļ, ka drīz pametīs  DIA vadītāja amatu, kurā pavadījis divus gadus no trim paredzētajiem.  Atkāpšanās iemesls “in part because of disagreements with other officials over military intelligence reorganization“.  Cienījama rīcība. LV “dienestu” aprindās tāda ir retums.

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