Interesting article on the CIA’s use of Social Computing sites and YouTube to gather intelligence.
In keeping with its mandate to gather intelligence, the CIA is watching YouTube. U.S. spies, now under the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), are looking increasingly online for intelligence; they have become major consumers of social media.
While I doubt they have employees whose exclusive function is watching Youtube, and I suspect some of it is automated, probably an interesting job, which I would expect requires some language skills as well. Apparently at least the CIA thinks there is intelligence out there 🙂 CIA Monitors YouTube For Intelligence
What a waste of time. There’s absolutely no intelligence at YouTube!
Ditto Lars. How much intelligence is on YouTube? No one does anything intelligent there that people watch!
LOL – I agree. What intelligence?!?
In college there was some goober that told us he worked for the government and he monitored pr0n sites!! He’s also the guy who said he had a 500 GB drive and 1GB RAM in his computer back in 1999… Riiiight…
Hmmm….and our company just blocked access to YouTube. CP is more secure than the CIA – who woulda guessed.