[HN Gopher] A collection of several hundred online tools for OSINT
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A collection of several hundred online tools for OSINT
Author : bj-rn
Score : 181 points
Date : 2022-09-23 13:09 UTC (9 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| asdadsdad wrote:
| OSINT is glorified web-scraping =)
| junon wrote:
| What are you credentials? As someone who does "OSINT", and has
| tried to automate it -- no, it is not glorified web scraping.
| mikrl wrote:
| Web scraping of a particular set of data, all of which has a
| locus you may find surprising (you)
| Arainach wrote:
| With so many links in the document, you'd think they could spare
| one to define OSINT.
| unethical_ban wrote:
| Open Source INTelligence.
| mikrl wrote:
| Compare with SIGINT, HUMINT, MASINT and other intelligence
| sources. I believe it's military/intelligence terminology but
| you see it in security jargon too.
| lifeisstillgood wrote:
| I am astounded by what is feasible with OSINt - from tracking
| Vice Presidenal picks and billionaires jets to counting tanks
| destroyed.
|
| I don't really understand the Venn Diagram here with journalism,
| spying and democratic debate, but it's there.
|
| A cottage industry that I assume will explode into things like
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| - Hiring background checks
|
| - consumer credit and counter party analysis
|
| - supply chain somethings (the old how many trucks left that
| depot last month tells you something valuable)
|
| Any other ideas ? Companies already springing up to do this?
| Bayart wrote:
| The first uses I've seen from governments have see fast
| response task forces during disasters.
| sleepdreamy wrote:
| How will hiring background checks move into a Cottage Industry?
| Isn't this already a business that is corporatized?
| lifeisstillgood wrote:
| I suppose it depends how deep the rabbit hole goes.
|
| I am guessing that it started with random HR woman who looks
| up a candidates Facebook profile and sees loads of drinking
| images (cf Danish Prime Minister)
|
| But turn that into a small company that just looks for
| drinking references for New Yorkers at a certain age and can
| correlate to "unsafe drinking behaviour" - now the corporate
| background checks that once were just criminal record checks
| and university attendance can add a "gold" service - they are
| just getting a rating from a cottage industry provider now -
| but it's the same idea - count number of photos with a
| cocktail in hand.
|
| I am just putting it out there - it's just there are so many
| options.
|
| To a large extent monitoring and aggregating out behaviour is
| what "social media" advertising _is_ - but the same thing is
| likely to find other commercial uses _as well as_ the big
| fundamental society changing effect of all of us being able
| to monitor our behaviour - and do so in medical context -
| your behaviour monitored in the best interests of the
| patient.
|
| A Nanny State with your best interests at heart.
| keepquestioning wrote:
| Is this how they found the Novichok poisoners?
| hiidrew wrote:
| I got intrigued by OSINT near the beginning of the Ukraine war. I
| imagine a lot of community members have related background
| experience. But interesting to think of those without experience
| that got into it and can have an impact with the tools available.
|
| There's a good podcast called New Models where they interview
| someone from the OSINT community. Recommend this if it piques
| your interest.
| joshsyn wrote:
| excitednumber wrote:
| Link?
| edgecasestdio wrote:
| It looks like a reference to the episode "NM Special Report:
| Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) & Ukraine w/ @pdthorn,"
| published in February 2022: https://www.patreon.com/posts/nm-
| special-open-63189724 (mirror:
| https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/new-models-public/nm-
| sp... )
| aaron695 wrote:
| Avicebron wrote:
| No reference to amass?
| PTOB wrote:
| Maybe it's just one pull request away...
| senda wrote:
| You'd think by now there would be a opensource dashboard
| aggregating all these.
| Diris wrote:
| I often use this one https://osintframework.com/
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| For which the source is there
| https://github.com/lockfale/osint-framework
| yamtaddle wrote:
| Is this more than an odd UI over what amounts to one of those
| GitHub "awesome" lists of links? I drilled down on a few
| categories and it seems like it's just that, but... slower to
| use.
| Diris wrote:
| I find it easier to navigate personally, but you can still
| use the one in the OP if you prefer that kind of style.
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