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I was recently published in “Progressive Railroading” and “Rail Professional” magazines about open source intelligence. The reason I am writing this is the day before the attacks in Paris I contacted the editor of Rail Professional (a U.K....
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The Sovereign Citizen movement. Last week I attended a conference of school security. One of the modules was on the Sovereign Citizen movement. For those of you that are not familiar with this group, as of this moment, it consists of approximately 100,000...
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As an intelligence professional, I understand that NSA really doesn’t care what you do with your life as long as it does not deal with terrorism. Such is the case with the recent disclosure that, through monitoring of communications, NSA discovered that Al Qaeda...
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So, we just lost some more eyes and ears that could tell us about potential terrorist or criminal threats on one of our critical infrastructures. The “First Observer” program just lost funding by the TSA. For those of you not familiar with the “First Observer”...
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Recently, Norfolk Southern announced that they will be joining the BNSF in a similar program to Citizen’s for Rail Security (CRS). The NS program is called “Protect the Line (PTL).” I joined with just a simple address, zip code and e-mail. We have...
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We recently learned that Iranian intelligence agents were videotaping various infrastructures to include subway tunnels. So, now not only do we have to worry about third world terrorists, now we have to worry about professional intelligence officers. In the world of...