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On Jan. 6, 2021, a mob of more than 2,000 people attacked the U.S. Capitol seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. As government agencies scrambled to identify the perpetrators in the aftermath, they were aided by private citizens who became, often without realizing it, accidental open-source investigators. Abbreviated “OSINT,” open-source intelligence is “produced from publicly available information that is collected, exploited, and disseminated … to an appropriate audience for the purpose of addressing a specific intelligence requirement.” While “intelligence” has not traditionall
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