But everything discussed so far is in the realm of business intelligence, a rear-view mirror on what the company did so that you can put rules in place about what the company should do going forward.
At a time of growing concern about terror training under way in the tribal areas of Pakistan, Mr. Nasir's experience, pieced together from government documents and interviews with him and intelligence officials, offers a view of the traffic into that region and the attempt by the authorities to monitor it.
By using business intelligence tools to create a view into Duke Medicine's enterprise data warehouse, DEDUCE provides a Guided Query functionality using a wizard-like interface that lets users filter through millions of clinical records, explore aggregate reports, and, export extracts.
TiVo Research might well be considered the Switzerland of TV viewing intelligence, offering a neutral view of linear viewing.
Arguably, as Strasburger suggested, this is strategic; intentional obfuscation on the part of the UK government — to spread FUD as a strategy to try to discourage use of a technology their intelligence agencies view as a barrier to their work.
"It's one thing to interrogate for intelligence purposes and another with a view to prosecuting someone before a military tribunal," Mr. Noon said.
Within American intelligence agencies, the shift toward a view that Mr. Hussein and his sons are probably alive has been prompted in part by the failure of excavations of the two bombing sites to turn up DNA or other physical evidence of their bodies.
This hack provided a remarkable insight into how the private security and intelligence companies view themselves vis a vis government security agencies like the C.I.A.
"If you have a big enough antenna, and point it at a computer that is not properly shielded, bonded and grounded, theoretically, you could pick up fragments of information that are useful from an intelligence point of view," he says.
This week Kit Malthouse, deputy mayor of London for policing and chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, said: "The new phenomena in policing, from an intelligence point of view, is social media and the Met albeit two or three years ago might have been a bit slow to catch on, they are now all over it".
