The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information. The organization maintains roughly three million publications which are available to colleges, companies, and the general public. These publications range in topics from Aeronautics to Urban and Regional Technology and Development. However, one of the [...]

I spy with my little eye: a gross intrusion on the privacy of the American people. Constitutionally speaking the term ?right to privacy? does not appear anywhere in the U.S. Constitution. However, these rights are implied in the Bill of Rights. These implications have been discussed repeatedly within the federal court system. Which is great [...]

Open source intelligence is a unique artifact of the intelligence community, and because of that the U.S. government’s Open Source Center is something that many people can not quite understand. Most people view any intelligence organization as dark and secretive, with not only closed doors, but locks and bars over those doors. This isn’t actually [...]

In the years that I’ve been researching both mundane and weird claims, I’ve had both the pleasure and displeasure of working with both avid believers and the morbidly skeptic. Being the type of guy who constantly rides the fence until enough information is in to draw, at the least, an educated guess about a situation [...]

One of the things that I’ve learned over the past few months, from my research efforts in the world of conspiracy theories, is that ultimately when you research and write about conspiracy theories, you are bound to end up facing tough decisions. Sometimes it’s a matter of discovering something so troubling, and so damaging about [...]

So you’re on a mission. Maybe it’s not for the president of the United States, and maybe it’s not even for the CIA or the FBI – but still, you have information that you need to obtain using covert means, and you need to do it now. It’s during times such as these that high [...]

A new and booming industry in the field of private investigation is companies that sell and process covert DNA test kits. If you’ve never heard of these, you may be surprised to learn that the police are not the only ones who can send biological samples out “to the lab” for DNA test. Now, private [...]

Using small disguised tape recorders for spying has a number of additional, useful purposes beside surveillance. Have you ever gone to a conference or some other meeting, and you really wanted to record all of the conversations that you had for future reference, but you simply can’t keep notes fast enough to retain all of [...]

Even though I spend a great deal of my time writing for income, I’ve been lucky enough to integrate much of that paid writing work into paranormal and UFO research into fringe ideas and conspiracy theories. There are many people out there who are interested in these topics and who are very curious about their [...]

Are you curious about the size of hidden web databases? Are you unsure whether you really understand what the Invisible Web is all about? In this article I’m going to outline not only what these areas of the web are all about, but also how you can use invisible web search engines to conduct some [...]