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Re: Intelligence – A good collection of great OSINT Resources

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Post by halfmatthalfcat »

greggarious wrote: post #12
profstasiak wrote: post #2

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…

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Living life in fear of reprisal isn’t much of a life. We all should strive to live up to our ideals and convictions, no matter the consequences. If we don’t then what are we actually doing here?

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greggarious wrote: post #12
profstasiak wrote: post #2

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…

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Post by jacquesm »

greggarious wrote: post #12
profstasiak wrote: post #2

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…

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If Putin is going to come after every Westerner that both hates his guts and that has contributed in one form or another to the Ukrainian side of this war then he has his work cut out for him. I'd say OP is too low value a target from cost/benefit analysis point of view and the backlash of committing acts of war on Western territory could well be much, much worse than anything that Putin is willing to deal with at the moment. Putin has gotten away with the occasional assassination of Russians on foreign soil, with innocents as collateral damage, if he steps that up to a targeted assassination campaign of Western citizens then that would be a serious miscalculation on his part.

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Post by [deleted] »

profstasiak wrote: post #2

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…

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Post by anigbrowl »

asdadsdad wrote: post #6
ameliorees wrote: post #3

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.

Agreed. This list is obviously tilted toward computer security; OSINT also targets nation states and political actors, and more often than not that's through non-technical means (ie looking for information carelessly left public rather than exploiting vulnerabilities to gain access to private information).

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Post by schroeding »

derefr wrote: post #16

Something 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…

A public (historical) WHOIS dataset is a nightmare due to GDPR et al., though, isn't it?

You couldn't opt-out of WHOIS (some TLDs just didn't allow for WHOIS privacy / proxy registrations) in the past, and it's IMO quite a hard sell that the public interest in the historic WHOIS data of some personal website should have any weight at all in this case.

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Post by jpleger »

derefr wrote: post #16

Something 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…

Some do, some don't. The big thing that Palantir provides you is a structured analysis platform more than anything. The idea is that your intel analysts are doing the same thing and structuring their artifacts in a consistent way. It isn't so much about pulling in feeds (though obviously most pull these in), but as structured process.

On something like whois, there are commercial vendors that provide history/change reporting, but its a pain in the butt to parse/normalize whois records and that is before you even get to the fact that many providers have shut down their whois feeds "for gdpr compliance".

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Post by realitygrill »

ameliorees wrote: post #3

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!

Would you mind reaching out to me? I'm trying to learn more about how to do OSINT (with that particular slant!).

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Post by 2devnull »

captainmuon wrote: post #17

Since 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…

A password manager?
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