OSINT (Open Source Intelligence)

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In Ardens, Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) is understood as a practice of discernment — the art of finding coherence in the flood of public data. It fuses empirical rigor with interpretive intuition, tracing how information architectures reflect power and intention. OSINT here is not extraction but illumination: a way of seeing systems as they truly are.