Open source refers to the ability of collecting information without resorting to the usual means;
spying, stealing,eavesdropping,paying,observing,collecting and a myriad of other methods to accomplish collecting information. the abwehr in Germany during ww2 did a good job gathering
information.American Prisoners in Germany were amazed how much was known about them.
U.S. newspapers were collected by the thousands, some microfilmed like v-mail and shipped by various ways even on convoys taking supplies to England. besides all the Germans who went to call of the fatherland and returned there for the fight taking knowledge back, those who remained sent continuous streams. Turner halls were German athletic based social clubs with bowling and the like, mostly in Texas-they provided daily info. in this fashion a typical u.s. prisoner was faced with hearing from his captors things like-your ex-girlfriend is going out with
Joe and your aunt just died,who will take care of her dog -the one you played with last year.
that and information collected by other means, like in the camps themselves by listening bugs
allowed them to get a comprehensive picture of their prisoners enabling them to demoralize and/or let their guards down. At the beginning of the war German subs would send shore parties
in long island and n.y. city to buy newspapers to see the convoy manifests and shipping dates and lanes!many ships and men were lost. residents of one south Texas town could hear wireless telegraphs on their bed springs,communicating with offshore u-boats providing info on mil. camps in south Texas-padre island was dotted with outposts to watch for German agents.
that's how many there were. the Irish in England were sympathetic to the axis and would contribute as well. there is the famous case that important codes concerning d-day showed up in a crossword puzzle in a newspaper, the Irish were listening around the camps and they placed them in the puzzle. one abwehr agent would sit around pretending he had an appointment in the s.o.e office (special operations executive-London) this was the spy and covert behind the lines clan. he was taking photos of everyone-his posting there compromised many agents. in our times
the Internet is supreme as you well know how important information is leaked and collected.
the above mentioned newspaper abwehr operation is still alive today it is called COLLATING
you can pay any collating company to give you anything you want- like ufos and you will receive
from every country in the world anything printed as far back as you want. why? take for example this open source method implemented by the D.O.D, they outsourced to bell labs to collate all European newspapers especially the rags to read between the lines for smears regarding certain remarks made about potential lawbreakers, it was remarkably correct and lead to their endeavours. I searched on the net how to spy and found very valuable info. it was very easy-how to get unsuspecting victims to give sensitive codes. the intelligence community says 93% of everything on the web is white noise like an out of tune radio-worthless garbage,google can only offer about 25% of whats out there. open source goes even further, its about information you can capitalize on. your open source frequency from your key less entry on your car can be recorded by a scanner and programed to another fob, that easy. people can see your luggage tags and go rob your house. right before pearl harbor a German family would visit
open house on the battleships, their son who was very much liked by the navy personnel was able to collect an amazing amount of detailed information on much of the ships moored there. they were abwehr agents and contributed much to the Japanese Intel leading to the attack.
during the 20's and 30's it was common in Europe to bribe private aviators to photograph
airfields and the like for espionage purposes, it is believed Amelia Earhart was on such a mission
(on the side) as the Japanese and u.s. were busy fortifying islands and preparing for war. in fact the marines were doing soundings around the pacific islands 10 years before. in one operation
they complained about the poor quality of photos taken from subs for beaches and one officer stated that he had seen superior photos from the Dardanelles in ww1 23 years before from a sub ,how can that be? they discovered the photos were taken with the leica camera, so in a reverse open source they placed ads in popular mechanics magazine that a camera collector
was paying top dollar for them, after that great beach shore photos came in.
the 2 most expensive single projects during ww2 were the a-bomb and the b-29 to carry it.
the a-bomb (project Manhattan) was to be shrouded in secrecy but in reality the nkvd (the pre-KGB) noticed the flurry of scientific papers that are commonly sent for review to their peers concerning atomic research
dried up instantly and alerted them that something was up. maybe it didn't help either that
Oppenheimer's second wife , kitty, was a high ranking communist party member in the u.s.
nowadays Intel uses the gopher technique-having monitored as many suspects as they can
a false message of concern is sent and dormant suspects raise their heads like gophers do,
since they usually don't raise at all, the new heads reveal themselves, its human nature also.
new cars have tire valve stems that send a signal to alert of low tire pressure-so even if you take off or disable on-star -gps- and so forth this signal can be picked up by a satellite and relay your position.
