Category: Geopolitics and doctrine
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Debriefing a Broken Heart: A Review of "Emotional Cognitive Warfare"“
The most common professional bias of an intelligence analyst is analyzing everything, including romantic relationships. Astore dei Boschi's "Emotional Cognitive Warfare" begins precisely with this assumption, analyzing a "non-relationship" as if it were a war scenario. The author applies the concepts of HUMINT, cognitive bias, and cognitive warfare to the field of…
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Why do you need to know ICD 203?
Let's be clear: a lot of people pontificate online about OSInt. The problem? They often focus on the tools and techniques for data collection, completely neglecting the methodologies and analysis techniques to use. Collecting data isn't "doing OSInt." It's just taking up disk space. The real difference is made by you, OSInt analyst, with your skills...
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The Difficult Detection of Art: Between Osint, Music, and (Anti)Censorship
The Difficulty of Detection in Art: Between OSINT, Music, and (Anti)Censorship. A journey through the hidden meanings of words, both in art and in the fight against censorship, and the challenges of conducting OSINT in languages and cultures other than one's own.
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From Wax Tablets to Elliptic Curves: A Brief History of Cryptography (Part Two)
With the advent of modern electronic computers, it has been possible to exploit the computational power of processors to automate message encoding and decoding procedures.
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What happens in the Blockchain does NOT stay in the Blockchain – Part Four –
We continue to correlate addresses with each other, so as to better define the activities of the subjects we are studying.
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What happens in the Blockchain does NOT stay in the Blockchain – Part Five –
We conclude our analysis by trying to understand where bitcoins were exchanged for FIAT currency, “exiting” the blockchain.