A question I am often asked by enthousiasts is how to explore the fascinating world of OSINT. My own journey spans about 45 years and I am still learning. There is no simple answer, but for OSINT from a strategic security, international relations or forensics viewpoint, the following guidance may provide a good starting points. […]
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Essential OSINT reading for this week: Open source investigations in the age of Google / Wilson, Henrietta ; Samuel, Olamide ; Plesch, Dan . – London : World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd , 2024 . – 388 p. . – (Security Science and Technology ; 4) Collection of papers on OSINT, reflections of, experiences, lessons […]
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Essential OSINT reading for this week. Building your information position on OSINT is essential when you are in the OSINT world. In Ready, Research, Read I shall share on a weekly basis one or two titles that I consider very worth while reading, based on working in OSINT since 1990. Let me know your thoughts. […]
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Essential OSINT reading for this week. Building your information position on OSINT is essential when you are in the OSINT world. In Ready, Research, Read I shall share on a weekly basis one or two titles that I consider very worth while reading, based on working in OSINT since 1990. Let me know your thoughts. […]
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Essential OSINT reading for this week. Building your information position on OSINT is essential when you are in the OSINT world. In Ready, Research, Read I shall share on a weekly basis one or two titles that I consider very worth while reading, based on working in OSINT since 1990. Let me know your thoughts. […]
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Essential OSINT reading for this week. Building your information position on OSINT is essential when you are in the OSINT world. In Ready, Research, Read I shall share on a weekly basis one or two titles that I consider very worth while reading, based on working in OSINT since 1990. Let me know your thoughts. […]
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Essential OSINT reading for this week. Building your information position on OSINT is essential when you are in the OSINT world. In Ready, Research, Read I shall share on a weekly basis one or two titles that I consider very worth while reading, based on working in OSINT since 1990. Let me know your thoughts. […]
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To have access to more structured, authorative, controlled data a local newspaper may come in useful. Especially in conjunction with social media that are usefull as a kind of first hand witness account. Use social media to monitor and find out if something has happened, then use newspapers to get more overview, reliability and explanation […]
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In the OSINT structured research process for online databases and search engines, there is a step called Citation Pearl Growing. That step is also one of the major search strategies, next to Building Blocks and Successive Factions. Ususally, the OSINTian starts with a very systematic approach using a Building Block strategy. Then to continue with […]
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Amongst the more special types of Internet search engines are so called Federated search engines. These are search engines that are not based on a robot or a crawler, but search Internet sources in real time, presenting real time search results. Traditional crawler based Internet search engines are batch operated machines. They typically make a […]