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Joined May 2016
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So you want a career in OSINT? @OSINTtechniques wrote a short guide for @WHInspector, for teens and their mentors. Practice on puzzles, not people. Ask "should I?" before "can I?" 🔗 thewhitehatter.ca/post/so-yo…
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We're hiring an early-career journalist as a Fellow for the Visual Investigations team at the @nytimes. Come work with me! You'll do OSINT reporting for a year with our team. Requires in-office work in NYC, authorization to work in the U.S. Pay is $82k. job-boards.greenhouse.io/the…
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Two satellite images, five days apart, one DC golf course. @bellingcat pairs Planet Labs captures from Oct 8 and Oct 13 to show the loss. 🔗 bellingcat.com/news/us-canad…
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Forensic OSINT v3.8.1: a capture uses less CPU and memory while it runs. It no longer holds every screenshot in memory at once. A new Local Storage card under Settings shows what is on disk. forensicosint.com/whats-new #OSINT
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Grok just told you who an account talks to. Did you open a single post to check? Nico Dekens (Dutch_OsintGuy) has started a new tip series on X with a practical one: mapping the footprint of one public X account. He practices on @NASA, so anyone can follow along. The method starts with no AI at all. You read the profile by hand first, so your first impression comes from the source, not a model summary. Then Advanced Search operators do the collection: ✅ from:NASA since:2026-09-01 until:2026-10-01 for a fixed window (until: is exclusive) ✅ to:NASA and @NASA -from:NASA for who is talking to the account ✅ min_faves and filter:media for what travels and what gets shared Grok sits on top as an accelerator. His rule for it is one I would tape to the monitor: no cited post URL, no finding. A Grok theme without three posts you confirmed yourself gets marked unverified. Posting hours get the same caution. They are clues, not geolocation. AI can speed up collection. The investigator decides when the evidence is enough. It is an X Article, so you will need to be logged in to X. Read Nico Dekens' full piece → xitter.twitterapi.xyz/dutch_osintguy/status/…
New X Article: how to map any public X account's online footprint with Advanced Search + Grok. Step by step, copy-paste queries, zero experience needed. And why YOU stay in (and on) the loop. Practice on @NASA. No magic. Just method. View article
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Suspected North Korean attackers duped an engineer with a fake job interview and a malicious download to gain a foothold in the crypto firm’s system and steal billions, according to Binance. buff.ly/9Fa2jBW
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Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry. buff.ly/sNs5kqF
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The FBI is releasing information advising the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was responsible for the theft of more than $6 billion USD in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, on or about October 29, 2026. The FBI refers to this specific North Korean malicious cyber activity as "TraderTraitor." The FBI, together with partners at the USSS and IRS-CI, has observed TraderTraitor actors converting stolen assets primarily into Ethereum (ETH). It is expected these assets will then be further laundered by converting them using DeFi and instant swap services as they prepare them for further laundering stages. How You Can Help: FBI, USSS, and IRS-CI are urging private sector entities including THORNode operators, RPC node operators, instant exchanges, DeFi services, blockchain analytics firms, and other virtual asset service providers to block transactions with or derived from addresses TraderTraitor actors are using to launder these stolen assets. A list of addresses associated with this activity is available here: fbi.gov/investigate/cyber/al…
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Hey everyone, we have heard your concerns about Proton’s AI strategy and culture and after internal discussions, we want to share a few things with you. First, Proton does not install tracking software on employees' laptops to measure how much AI-generated code they produce. This rumor stemmed from a misunderstanding about how MDM software works, and it's not true. Second, our use of AI will never be at the expense of security. In the past year, contrary to what has been alleged, additional layers of security review have been added to meet the threat posed by hostile AIs scanning Proton's open-source code for vulnerabilities. Our code is open source, and its security remains open for all to verify. We want to prove this to you, so in the interest of transparency, we will lift the hood on how we use AI internally at Proton. This includes publicly releasing and open sourcing several of the internal tools that we use, including more advanced versions of Lumo with greater capabilities, which have never been made available outside of the company. We will also publish how code reviews and security reviews at Proton are done, and detail our AI policies, including where AI is permitted, and where it is not, and our rationale. Instead of just being able to see the final open-source code that we produce to verify security, you will also be able to assess how that code was produced. Lastly, we are not re-interviewing our staff about AI usage, and there are no job losses due to AI re-interviews. You can hold us to these commitments. We're aware that we haven't lived up to the high standard you ought to hold us to, and for that we can only apologize, we are sorry.
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Anyone can access public information. Making it something that can be "explained, reproduced and defended" is the work. The Canadian OSINT Centre's first white paper looks at why methodology matters for OSINT in Canada. 🔗 linkedin.com/posts/the-canad…
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No cited post URL, no finding. Nico Dekens on using Grok to map an X account leads this week's Friday 5, plus Bellingcat's satellite pair, OPSEC, a due diligence story (fiction) and my career guide for teens and mentors. 🔗 forensicosint.com/newsletter #OSINT
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ADL has identified at least 8 mass attackers since 2024 who were active on one gore forum before they attacked. Its new piece explains memetic violence, where the attack is built to be content, and points to a field guide on the language. 🔗 linkedin.com/pulse/when-viol…
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Forensic OSINT v3.8.1 is out. Elite Assisted Capture now covers Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn. Facebook discovery is up to 5x faster. Sort and filter the list before you capture. forensicosint.com/whats-new #OSINT
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OSMOSIS was a banger back in my government days—and it still matters just as much now in private industry. 😎 The OSINT community all in one place: learn, connect, share, and put faces to names. Where OSINTers belong. 🕵️‍♂️ 📍 Las Vegas | 📅 May 2027
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