Intelligence – A good collection of great OSINT Resources

Re:Intelligence – A good collection of great OSINT Resources by jacquesm on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:05PM (#34248217)

If Putin is going to come after every Westerner that both hates his guts and that has contributed in one form or another to the Ukrainian side of this war then he has his work cut out for him. I'd say OP is too low value a target from cost/benefit analysis point of view and the backlash of committing acts of war on Western territory could well be much, much worse than anything that Putin is willing to deal with at the moment. Putin has gotten away with the occasional assassination of Russians on foreign soil, with innocents as collateral damage, if he steps that up to a targeted assassination campaign of Western citizens then that would be a serious miscalculation on his part.

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Re:Intelligence – A good collection of great OSINT Resources by 2devnull on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @01:14PM (#34249225)

On the other hand cost/benefit can change, especially with new technology - machine learning, ai, quantum computing, etc… That may be why the military is so interested in encouraging it, to distribute (thin out) the risk.

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Re:Intelligence – A good collection of great OSINT Resources by jstarfish on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @04:28PM (#34251961)

> Putin has gotten away with the occasional assassination of Russians on foreign soil, with innocents as collateral damage, if he steps that up to a targeted assassination campaign of Western citizens then that would be a serious miscalculation on his part.

On the other hand, targeting nobodies abroad would be a highly-effective form of stochastic terrorism inflicted with the unpredictability and resources of a state-sponsored serial killer.

Anybody attempting attribution would be dismissed as crazy.

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Re:Intelligence – A good collection of great OSINT Resources by greggarious on Thursday January 05, 2023 @03:58AM (#34257560)

>> Putin has gotten away with the occasional assassination of Russians on foreign soil, with innocents as collateral damage, if he steps that up to a targeted assassination campaign of Western citizens then that would be a serious miscalculation on his part.

>On the other hand, targeting nobodies abroad would be a highly-effective form of stochastic terrorism

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Stochastic terrorism is "The use of mass public communication, usually against a particular individual or group, which incites or inspires acts of terrorism which are statistically probable but happen seemingly at random."[1]

What you're describing -- "murdering nobodies" is just run of the mill terrorism[2] where I'm from[3].

>§ 2717. Terrorism.

>(a) General rule.--A person is guilty of terrorism if he commits a violent offense intending to do any of the following:

>(1) Intimidate or coerce a civilian population.

>(2) Influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion.=

>(3) Affect the conduct of a government.

Be more careful with your language, words have immense power.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stochastic_terrorism

[2] https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/18/00.027..H...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl3jK8NCLFc

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