• thesporkeffect@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This is probably talking about “open source intelligence” which is not related to open source software. That doesn’t mean they’re cool, obviously

  • edric@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Like the other comment said, this sounds more like an OSINT related job.

  • Revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    Since before it was the CIA. Open Source in this context isn’t about software licensing, it’s about gleaning everything you can about an adversary from publicly available information without infiltrating anything.

    A non-intelligence example of this would speculating on what products a company is working on based on their job postings.

    To bring it full circle, one can glean from this posting that the CIA is looking to hire someone to troll the internet for folks to target for further intelligence gathering. Business as usual.