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What is Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)?

Here are a few popular definitions of Open Source Intelligence:

From Wikipedia:

• Open source intelligence (OSINT) is a form of intelligence collection management that involves finding, selecting, and acquiring information from publicly available sources and analyzing it to produce actionable intelligence. In the intelligence community (IC), the term “open” refers to overt, publicly available sources (as opposed to covert or classified sources); it is not related to open-source software or public intelligence… continue reading on Wikipedia

Others definitions from the community:

• Any unclassified information, in any medium, that is generally available to the public, even if its distribution is limited or only available upon payment
• Intelligence is a process by which information is treated to answer and provide analysis which is used by a body. That information comes from open source or not does not makes it Open Source Intelligence. Stricto senso Open Source Intelligence would mean that it would be open, available, to all.