{"id":1557,"date":"2009-10-27T07:18:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T14:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2009-10-27T07:18:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T14:18:54","slug":"hiding-in-plain-sight-and-plethora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/10\/27\/hiding-in-plain-sight-and-plethora\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiding in plain sight and plethora."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And here I thought Google was already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/10\/cia_invests_in.html\">doing this<\/a> for the U.S. government: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It&#8217;s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using &#8220;open source intelligence&#8221; &#8212; information that&#8217;s publicly available, but often hidden in the flood of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Original story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2009\/10\/exclusive-us-spies-buy-stake-in-twitter-blog-monitoring-firm\/\">Wired<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And here I thought Google was already doing this for the U.S. government: In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It&#8217;s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}