This is both a collection of information and knowledge on OSINT, and a repository of collections, materials, tools, how-tos on OSINT with all its various disciplines. It's a maintained project: The information in here will grow and change over time.
Note that dead links are generally not removed from the repository, but rather replaced by a link to a web archive snapshot. If you find a dead link behind an item that sparks your interest, try recovering the content by making use of web archiving.
The project is maintained using Obisidian, a clever and handy bit of technology that lets you just take your notes and get neither lost nor distracted in doing so. Most of the markdown that is used here is standard markdown, and a few bits and pieces are inherently based on features of Obsidian itself. Which is why not everything will render as intended in any markdown reader.
- [[_introduction|Introduction]]: OSINT in general. This is where to find general information on OSINT and its disciplines, and also a huge collection of resources that are great to use when launching a new OSINT-related research project.
- [[research-management|Research Management]]: Managing an OSINT-related research project.
- [[sock-accounts]] and [[surveillance]]: Building a presence with privacy in mind.
- [[search-engines]]: Narrowing down what's already been found.
- [[identification]]: Identifying what it is that you're looking at.
- [[email-phone-address-etc]]: Identifying the points of contact with a target.
- [[social-media]]: Scouting user-generated content.
- [[the-web]]: Gathering information about web presences.
- [[infrastructure]]: Overview of infrastructure-related data.
- [[traffic-transportation]]: Specific GEOINT of traffic and transportation.
- [[journalism-newspapers]]: Search the media.
- [[companies]]: Sharpening a picture of a company.
- [[law]]: Identifying what is and isn't lawful.
- [[deanonymisation]]: Uncovering what wasn't intended to.
- [[deep-web-dark-web]]: OSINT below sea level.
- [[deepfakes]]: Identifying and dealing with deception using deepfake techniques.
- [[weapons-ammo]]: Gathering information on weapons and weapon equipment.
- [[apt-groups]]: Investigating Advanced Persistent Threat.
- [[breaches]]: Site, domain, and data breaches: Breach status querying, searching breach data archives, and handling personal exposure in a breach.
- [[_notes|Notes]]: A document of mere scattered random notes that are in need of being vetted and placed into the main repository.
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Who, as of this moment, seems to have gone AWOL.
Figured it was time to actually document some of my work. This blog is mostly going to be articles, write-ups and other ramblings about a few different intelligence and counter-intelligence subjects.