Gathering Open Source Intelligence Anonymously

If the foreign language blogging or terrorist website you are visiting for open source intelligence gathering can track back and attribute collection activities to your intelligence agency, you are likely being routed to a fake website. Technology exists, however to provide non-attribution services to protect identities, especially source of country of origin. This webinar presents proven non-attribution services, appropriate tactics and techniques for analysts in order to maintain anonymity online when conducting research Including:

1. TOR (The Onion Router): How this free software works, strengths and weaknesses, who uses it and who doesn't, performance and security considerations.
   
   
2. Commercial Anonymous Services: Similarities and differences vs. TOR, advances regarding identity shielding and illustrative case studies
   
   
3. Best Practices: Anonymous posturing on the internet, legal vs. illegal anonymous online searching, automatic intelligence gathering under the radar screen and more.
   
   

Webinar Panelists:
Lance Cottrell, Chief Scientist, Abraxas
Jason Thomas, Lecturer, West Virginia University