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Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone

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Re: Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone

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post #39

"Gather the Data: Use various tools and methods to collect information." "By following a structured approach and leveraging specialized tools, you can effectively gather, analyze, and verify information from publicly available sources." Am I paranoid or was this partly written by an LLM? Or is it just naturally so vague and generic. I mean most of the tips are kinda legit, but after the title I expected a little more…

I checked who else submitted osintteam.blog domain, and it's user https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=haydenbannz , and it looks like they used HN mostly for self-promotion: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=haydenbannz (some posts are [dead]).

Re: Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone

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SWIM's recommendation for anyone wanting to learn is to sign up for Breachforum and read up on all of the contents in their OSINT subforum [1] where you can ask questions too. If you're willing to boogey on into the grey area, you can even download leaked datasets from BreachForum, Leakbase.io, etc. to make your job a lot easier if it involves identifying people online - for example a few databases like AT&T customer…

Someone who is me

Legally airtight. A genius stratagem basically.

Re: Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone

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From my impression, the way you get good at OSINT is knowing which types of information tend to be related, and where to go with what you have. All OSINT guides include a surprising amount of paid tools. OSINT tools are dime a dozen, you have to know how to use them. Finding tools is easy, there are endless collections of them: - https://osintframework.com/ - https://github.com/jivoi/awesome-osint - https://cylect.io…

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Re: Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone

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post #39

"Gather the Data: Use various tools and methods to collect information." "By following a structured approach and leveraging specialized tools, you can effectively gather, analyze, and verify information from publicly available sources." Am I paranoid or was this partly written by an LLM? Or is it just naturally so vague and generic. I mean most of the tips are kinda legit, but after the title I expected a little more…

Frankly I got that impression too, but more because of the structure of the post than anything else.

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Re: Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone

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SWIM's recommendation for anyone wanting to learn is to sign up for Breachforum and read up on all of the contents in their OSINT subforum [1] where you can ask questions too. If you're willing to boogey on into the grey area, you can even download leaked datasets from BreachForum, Leakbase.io, etc. to make your job a lot easier if it involves identifying people online - for example a few databases like AT&T customer…

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Re: Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone

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I never liked this term. Why is the term "Open Source" used to refer to publicly available information? Something like "PAT" would have been a better acronym: Public Available Information. Do we refer to street dogs as open source dogs?

> "PAT" would have been a better acronym: Public Available Information. informaTion? > Do we refer to street dogs as open source dogs? No, but we don't call them Public Available Dogs either.

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