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Re:Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatol... by pvg on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:26PM (#18078838)
of such type of open-source intelligence

Key bits are not entirely from open sources, particularly the passport application that directly connects the apparently real identity they dug up to the new undercover one.

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Re:Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatol... by Muromec on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:47PM (#18079047)
The basically found right person in a database leak (which can be considered open source) and then verified their hypothesis by doing probiv, which is not open source, but is available for anybody with some money for the right person.
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Re:Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatol... by pvg on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:51PM (#18079085)
which can be considered open source

How can it be considered open source? None of the reports (from several publications) involving the passport applications have identified the source.

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Re:Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatol... by catskul2 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @09:51PM (#18081628)
The method of investigation was to use (mostly) open available sources.

There's a name collision where "open source" means something different in intelligence and reporting than it does for software and technology.

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Re:Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatol... by pvg on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:54PM (#18081820)
I don't see how the 'name collision' is related. It wasn't a fully open source investigation and one particular key source, which the comment I replied to called 'open' is very much not open.
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