Profiling Through Open Source Intelligence

I’ve covered the proliferation of digital traces, as well as how those footprints can be combined to de-anonymize data, eroding the privacy of users.  This week, we see another chapter emerge in this storyline, with a report from Computerworld about tools for mining social networks and other open sources.  In this week’s Cyber Risk Report, we talked about the risks posed by these tools to organizations, and I’d like to expand on that, as well as some benefits, here in this post.