I contributed to an essay on OSINT, mostly as background, by Shashank Joshi, which is the Cover Story of the August 7th 2021 edition of the Economist. It's a fun and engaging read about the weird and important things people like me are doing either professionally or in my case, in my spare time, with OSINT to break the state monopoly on intelligence.
So uhh... I'm quoted in the Economist this week... Mostly from talking on background about OSINT, the @ACWPodcast, the #PS752 shootdown and how @Ascii211 plays with Sidewinders https://t.co/iajCQHeDTV pic.twitter.com/SuelcbRwYH
— Paddy Kerley (@LegendaryPatMan) August 5, 2021
If you know me well enough, you'll see the throughline of how overhead imagery analysis got started by the allies being confused by reconnaissance imagery of Auschwitz, thinking it to be an industrial complex and concentration camp rather than all of the above and an extermination camp and how I think this kind of faulty intelligence exists, in an era where we can, and should do better. Also that I don't like to not know what something is and that I have a drive to know and understand things.
