① Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet.② The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in the World War II and later laid the roots for the CIA was fascinated with information. ③ Donovan believed in using whatever tools came to hand in the “great game” of espionage一spying as a "profession” . ④ These days the Net, which has already re-made such everyday pastimes as buying books and sending mail, is reshaping Donovan' s vocation as well.
① The last revolution isn' t simply a matter of gentlemen reading other gentlemen' s e-mail. ② That kind of electronic spying has been going on for decades. ③ In the past three or four years, the World Wide Web has given birth to a whole industry of point-and-click spying.④ The spooks call it uopen-source intelligence , and as the Net grows, it is becoming increasingly influential.⑤ In 1995 the CIA held a contest to see who could compile the most data about Burundi.⑥ The winner, by a large margin, was a tiny Virginia company called Open Source Solutions, whose clear advantage was its mastery of the electronic world.文章源自潍坊木杉教育信息网-http://wfbohan.cn/63/
① Among the firms making the biggest splash in this new world is Straitford, Inc., a private intelligence-analysis firm based in Austin, Texas. ② Straitford makes money by selling the results of spying (covering nations from Chile to Russia) to corporations like energy-services firm McDermott International.③ Many of its predictions are available online at www.straitford.com.文章源自潍坊木杉教育信息网-http://wfbohan.cn/63/
① Straiford president George Friedman says he sees the online world as a kind of mutually reinforcing tool for both information collection and distribution, a spymaster' s dream.② Last week his firm was busy vacuuming up data bits from the far corners of the world and predicting a crisis in Ukraine.③ "As soon as that report runs, we' 11 suddenly get 500 new Internet sign-ups from Ukraine," says Friedman, a former political science professor. ④ "And we' ll hear back from some of them." ⑤ Open-source spying does have its risks, of course, since it can be difficult to tell good information from bad. (6) That' s where Straitford earns its keep.文章源自潍坊木杉教育信息网-http://wfbohan.cn/63/
① Friedman relies on a lean staff of 20 in Austin. ② Several of his staff members have military-intelligence backgrounds. ③ He sees the firm' s outsider status as the key to its success. ④ Straitford * s briefs don' t sound like the usual Washington back-and-forthing, whereby agencies avoid dramatic declarations on the chance they might be wrong.⑤ Straitford,says Friedman, takes pride in its independent voice.文章源自潍坊木杉教育信息网-http://wfbohan.cn/63/
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