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January 23, 2005
Technology Can Fix U.S. Intelligence
From Feb.Technology Review: Technology Can Fix U.S. Intelligence
The real problems within the intelligence community are much deeper and more ingrained. One way a technology audience might view them is as a failure to build an effective knowledge management system to support U.S. government policymakers. That perspective reveals an abundance of obvious flaws. There is a government culture that values secrecy and hoards knowledge rather than sharing it with those who need it most. Secrecy is important, but while emerging technologies - like quantum encryption, which will prevent eavesdropping - make it ever easier to protect information you want to hold close, they should be used to increase, not decrease, opportunities for openness. One senior military commander told me that perhaps 95 percent of what is now deemed secret is available via open sources, thanks to the Internet. Unnecessary secrecy costs billions and impedes the flow of vital information. It is also an exercise in futility. I've seen instances where Web-harvested information was received by the government and immediately classified.
Posted by sfisher at January 23, 2005 04:59 PM
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