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Re: Intelligence – A good collection of great OSINT Resources

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at the start of Russian invasion I helped geolocate one video, claiming that Russians entered Kherson. I found it after about one hour and posted on twitter tagging everyone I know. I got no feedback so got discouraged. But few months later, I noticed that France24 used my tweet to prove Russians entered Kherson and a lot of newspapers followed their lead. Pretty cool I was able to help in a minimally viable way to understand what was happening

Re: Intelligence – A good collection of great OSINT Resources

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The list is cool and full of interesting things. But as someone who has done OSINT a lot for journalism and legal investigations and built tools for the space I can say that people rely most on custom internal tools or the simplest/ most popular tooling among the community!

Re: Intelligence – A good collection of great OSINT Resources

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The list is cool and full of interesting things. But as someone who has done OSINT a lot for journalism and legal investigations and built tools for the space I can say that people rely most on custom internal tools or the simplest/ most popular tooling among the community!

I feel like most of OSINT is more manual than these lists lead to believe. Or if not, most of it relies on already-built massive archives or tools that scrape those archives.

Re: Intelligence – A good collection of great OSINT Resources

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at the start of Russian invasion I helped geolocate one video, claiming that Russians entered Kherson. I found it after about one hour and posted on twitter tagging everyone I know. I got no feedback so got discouraged. But few months later, I noticed that France24 used my tweet to prove Russians entered Kherson and a lot of newspapers followed their lead. Pretty cool I was able to help in a minimally viable way to u…

that's awesome man. oh and feel free to be encouraged but don't ever get discouraged based on other people's behavior or actions. experts like you are definitely needed in today's world. people will eventually appreciate your research.

Re: Intelligence – A good collection of great OSINT Resources

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The list is cool and full of interesting things. But as someone who has done OSINT a lot for journalism and legal investigations and built tools for the space I can say that people rely most on custom internal tools or the simplest/ most popular tooling among the community!

I feel like most of OSINT is more manual than these lists lead to believe. Or if not, most of it relies on already-built massive archives or tools that scrape those archives.

absolutely. it's just useful for a quick overview. real research happens when you keep digging where others haven't.
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