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

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INTRODUCTION

The design, mode of use, and nature of a shared infrastructure create

vulnerabilities for all users.

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At the core of the information infrastructure upon which we depend is

the Internet, a system originally designed to share unclassied research

among scientists who were assumed to be uninterested in abusing the

network. It is that same Internet that today connects millions of other

computer networks making most of the nation’s essential services and

infrastructures work.

2

Perhaps nothing better symbolizes the information age transformation of

the world than the changes that the Internet is bringing about in social,

business, and government life. From communications and commerce to

games, dating, and blogging, the World Wide ...