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Aug 4
4 min

Facial Recognition for Verification (Missing Persons)

Facial recognition (FR) is a controversial technology. People's privacy, attribution & freedoms are often questions when FR is advertised...

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Download social media videos without tools

Chris

Jun 20
3 min

Download social media videos without tools

Social media video content is an important part of any investigation or analyst's work. The platforms that host videos can rapidly take d...

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Chris

May 13
3 min

Rapid Data Visualization

In this short post we're going to look at a new free tool we have released to help people rapidly visualize data to help tell stories or ...

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Chris

Mar 13
9 min

Country & Area Assessments

[Presentation deck available here] With the outbreak of coronavirus and continued geo-political instability, it is often a key requiremen...

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Chris

Nov 23, 2019
4 min

Foursquare - The Hidden OSINT Gem

Foursquare was originally built in 2009 as a check-in technology. It is often overlooked as an OSINT source because it is all about busin...

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Corporate Profiling - Advanced LinkedIn searching & more

Chris

Oct 22, 2019
9 min

Corporate Profiling - Advanced LinkedIn searching & more

Corporate profiling is critical part of many investigations. The use-cases are vast including corporate due diligence, pre-hire screening...

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Chris

Oct 13, 2019
5 min

The Transliteration Problem in OSINT

Introduction Open source investigations routinely require the use of translation tools to assist with language barriers as targets may po...

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Connecting the dots - social engagement clusters on Facebook & Instagram

Chris

Oct 1, 2019
4 min

Connecting the dots - social engagement clusters on Facebook & Instagram

Social engagement clusters on Facebook & Instagram

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Chris

Sep 22, 2019
4 min

OSINT Collection Schema

Define what to collect, how to structure & log the information properly and understanding how things are related & linked to enhance your OS

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