Open Source Revolution in the third millennium: Ontological challenge for intelligence

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which brings about revolution in open source intelligence, challenge intelligence ontologically? Author first describes the basic concepts, and then explains transformations in Open source intelligence as one of the collection methods. To answer the question,  He analyses information revolution and open source revolution effects odd different aspects of intelligence such as: transparency, accountability, secrecy, relation between intelligence producer and consumer of intelligence. He claims that open source revolution restricts monopoly of intelligence production by intelligence organizations and decreases the level of secrecy. Author also assumes that multitude of information available in information revolution era, makes some uncertainties on validity and reliability of data.

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