Internet Searches for Vetting, Investigations, and Open-Source Intelligence

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CONTENTS

Introduction xiii

SECTION I Behavior and Technology

1 The Internet’s Potential for Investigators and Intelligence Ofcers 3

People, Places, Organizations, and Topics 4

A Practitioner’s Perspective 10

The Search 11

Internet Posts and the People They Prole 13

Finding the Needles 15

The Need for Speed 15

What We Can’t Do Without 16

Notes 17

2 Social and Technological Change 21

Internet Use Growth 21

Evolution of Internet Uses 24

Physical World, Virtual Activities 28

Connection and Disconnection 28

Notes 30

3 Use and Abuse—Crimeon the Internet 33

By the Numbers? 34

Online Venues 35

Digital Delinquency 36

“Free” Intellectual Property 36

The Insider 38

Notes 40

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4 Implications for the Enterprise 43

The New Use ...