Topic 495:  Creativity and Hackers...
# 23: Robert David Steele (steeler)      Wed, Aug 11, '93  (05:20)     102 lines

 Outline of Hack-tic Workshop 6 August, Holland
 "Hacking the Intelligence Community: Increasing
 Citizens' Access to Intelligence in the Age of
 Information Warfare"
 
 What IS intelligence?  Data, Info, Intel
 Why Hack the Intelligence Community?
 	Age of Info, InfoWar, InfoEcon
 	Empower CITIZENS, the "troops"
 	Move $1-5 billion from U.S. Intel Budget
 	(per year, there is a draft bill I
 	wrote ciruclating for comment, to
 	create a National Knowledge Foundation)
 Salute to Hackers--The Trail Blazers
 Mile in My Shoes
 	Intel Experience
 	$10M mistake
 	(USMC Intel Ctr built Top Secret
 	system to get into CIA data, etc.,
 	only to find database empty of
 	useful Third World info--and
 	the system isn't allowed to go
 	into open source databases by
 	security regulations)
 Explode the Myth of Intelligence
 	Collection failures (less than 10%)
 	Production failures (90% or more
 	  of what a policy maker
 	  reads/listens to is UNCLASSIFIED
 	  and UNANALYZED)
 	Production types & limits (too
 	  much, too late, too secret)
 	Dinosaur/Cadilac Analogy
 	(We've spent billions building
 	a superhighway between Moscow
 	and Washington, and a single
 	Cadillac, when what we really
 	need now is many many off-
 	road vehicles--five jeeps,
 	100 motorcycles, 1000 bikes)
 	BENCHMARKING
 	(Get consumers of intelligence
 	to give same question to library
 	as to intel--one general got an
 	answer from library in 45 minutes
 	and it was of course unclassified;
 	intel community came back in two
 	days, SAME answer, classified)
 Power in the Age of Information
 	Information Continuum
 	(K-12, univ, lib, businesses,
 	private investigators-info
 	brokers, media, government,
 	defense-intel)
 	Barriers--Iron Curtains
 	between sectors, Bamboo
 	Curtains between institutions
 	within sectors, plastic curtains
 	between individuals within
 	institutions.
 	Hackers helping poke holes in
 	the curtains.
 	INFORMATION COMMONS
 	Need to break down curtains
 	SHARED collection responsibilities
 	DISTRIBUTED analysis & production
 	Age of "central" intelligence is OVER!!
 	Direct "mind-links" in real time between
 	consumer w/question and expert w/answer
 	Old linear paradgim dead (consumer to
 	analyst to collector to source and back)
 	New diamond paradgim (all four all ways)
 Must empower the citizen with intelligence
 	--  as a voter
 	--  as an investor
 	--  as an entrepreneur
 	--  as scientist
 	--  as social thinker
 New Security Concepts: Focus on connectivity
 	and speed, NOT on restricting dissem
 	or even bothering to decrypt
 Need a NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE STRATEGY
 	God Bless Al Gore BUT he is
 	"all connectivity and no content"
 	Need to free up unclassified information
 	wrapped in the "cement overcoat" of
 	peripheral classified information
 	Need a national program to break
 	down curtains and increase sharing of
 	original unclassified source material
 	Need a natinal cooperative R&D effort
 	to avoid waste (I believe the intelligence
 	community wastes $100 million a year at
 	least, from having at least ten different
 	"black" programs each trying to build
 	the ultimate all source analysts
 	workstation in isolation--and this is
 	just one small example of waste from
 	compartmentation)
 Intelligence for the Masses
 
 Lots of good Q&A.
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