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Intelligence – A good collection of great OSINT Resources
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#12at 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…
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#13Relatedly: is there software / database designs recommended for managing osint facts?
I use rolling snapshots. It helps protect against members dropping suddenly, as a lot of OSINT sources aren't intended to be and will only contain a sample of your target population. Opinions, priorities, or biases may change, and thus so will the data.
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#14Don't forget the Noncredibledefense subreddit.
i did forget. thanks!
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#15at 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…
Bravo. That is definitely probably the only true 'hacker badge' that I would really want. I would wear that little patch on my jacket at the little meeting for sure.
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#16Something I've always wondered: when you sign up for a proprietary "intelligence management" platform like Palantir Gotham, do they give you access to a bunch of OSINT datasets they scrape and manage themselves, to combine with your proprietary intelligence dataset for enhanced understanding? Sort of like how BigQuery has "BigQuery public datasets"?
If not, seems like a missed opportunity for value-add / lock-in.
And if they do provide such data, it'd be nice if one such platform would make either the scrapers, or the scraped data, open-source. It's all just cleaned+normalized forms of already-public data, after all. (Like how the Yellow Pages could always be seen as a cleaned+normalized form of phone numbers listed in public view on shop windows.)
This is on my mind recently after noticing that there's actually no public dataset of "all WHOIS data for every domain on the Internet", despite WHOIS data being something explicitly designed for public querying. Almost certainly, intelligence agencies compile such a dataset themselves in order to fill in some gaps in cybercrime network-analysis graphs. Almost certainly multiple of them do, such that the number of crawlers doing it probably hurts the WHOIS services. Almost certainly the WHOIS services would be better off partnering with one of them to act as an "official crawler" to build such an index for everyone's use.
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#17Since other people are asking about related tools...
Do you know about a tool for managing personas (vulgo sockpuppets)? E.g. a little database where you store facts about fake identities: Name, age, location, hobbies, favorite topics, and so on. Maybe if you click on an identity, it will connect you with a preconfigured proxy or VPN and allow you to post as them on websites.
I don't really have a use case for myself. I'm just curious because I read a couple of years ago that the US Army was developing something like that for propaganda, and wonder if the OSINT or sousveilance people have come up with a version. A less nefarious use of such technology would be to keep your (real) online personalities separate.
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#19at 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…
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A lot of people geolocate stuff on /r/combatfootage for fun because they like following the progress of the war. It's a personal challenge.
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#20OSINT is the one of the last ways we humans have, to get some Data that is at least a bit honest. More importaint is that we know how to use and gather it. THX for your link i will take a look at it.