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vancecookcobxin

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About vancecookcobxin

Just a man with eclectic tastes

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    Show HN: My OSINT dashboard with 60+ feeds now has a pseudonymous P2P comms

    Sup HN, So a couple of months ago I posted my OSINT app ShadowBroker here and got WAY more attention than I expected. Some of the feedback was brutal, but honestly, a lot of it was…

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    Comment #47304741

    Glad to have you aboard!

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    Comment #47303543

    I get it! Unfortunately, you need a security clearance or a really fat wallet to get that kind of data. OSINT is a different thing.

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    Comment #47303292

    Stellar advice! I will totally keep that in mind. Thanks!

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    Comment #47302990

    I REALLY, REALLY dont want it used for that type of stuff.

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    Comment #47302295

    They are definitely on the horizon! I am a HUGE fan of both of those projects and they are definitely on the roadmap for the architecture... Right now, ShadowBroker is really optim…

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    Well, I have to make some modifications, but that isn't recommended right now because I have a settings option with the API key right there for the free world to see, lol. I will w…

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    Comment #47301158

    Its all free baby lol

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    Comment #47301018

    Apparently, I had a bunch of front end developmental scripts that were calling the Windows version of python. Working on it now.

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    Ah, that's my fault for not making the error handling clearer in the UI. If the map is blank, it usually means the backend is missing the .env file with the free API keys (AISSTREA…

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    Comment #47300612

    Thank you for the heads up! Will do.

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    Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds

    Sup HN, So I got tired of bouncing between Flightradar, MarineTraffic, and Twitter every time something kicked off globally, so I wrote a dashboard to aggregate it all locally. It’…