“Over the past decade commercial-satellite #images have become the lifeblood of open-source #intelligence (osint), allowing #researchers and #journalists to pierce the #FogOfWar and hold #governments to account. Now, when a widening #war in the #MiddleEast makes those #photographs especially vital, they are disappearing.”
A measure of progress is the degradation of commercial and non-commercial open sources of information. Welcome to the 1980, 1990s. You’re going to have to get a bit more creative.
#OSINT / #information / #sources <https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2026/03/15/open-source-intelligence-shuts-down> / <https://archive.md/0HiHx>




