The One OSINT Tool You Must Have to Supercharge Your Investigations | by OSINT Essentials | Medium Everybody loves tools. It’s a basic instinct that probably kicked in around the moment the first caveman — or woman — realised that the jagged piece of flint they’d just stepped on would make skinning wildebeest much faster and more efficient. Fast-forward just a little, and the dawn of the smartphone era made “There’s an app for that” a universally understood phrase — and most of us now carry around in our pocket a collection of programs and gadgets that a generation ago would have filled a small room. Cameras, calendars, word processors, detailed interactive atlases and entire encyclopedias that are constantly updated. Forget about tools. Yes, forget about tools. For a moment at least. That may sound like strange advice coming from someone who’s spent time and effort putting together a website specifically to introduce the best free tools and services for online investigations. I can’t stress enough how off-target this approach is. Photography has long been an interest of mine.
untitled The Master of Industrial Design program explores design as a vehicle for addressing social, cultural, environmental and other concerns, recognizing that design is not simply a professional service, but rather a way of connecting individual interests and values with a social framework. Students with undergraduate degrees in other fields or with limited design experience are invited to enter the program during Wintersession as a means of preparing to begin the two-year master’s program the following fall. ID covers a broad range of fields, from product and furniture explorations to design for aerospace and medical applications. Graduate students work independently under the guidance of a faculty advisor and thesis committee, and present their final work verbally, visually and in writing. They also participate in the RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition, a large-scale public show held annually. Graduate Program Director: Andy Law Follow index Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019 Love view, Wudi Hong
Analyzing Social Media with Digital Methods. Possibilities, Requireme… Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier Locals and Tourists Introducing the YouTube Data Tools When it comes to social media, YouTube is maybe the most understudied platform considering it’s enormous popularity in the context of popular culture, politics, and commerce. As part of a long term project on APIs from a software/platform studies perspective, but also in relation to the technical fieldwork required for data-driven empirical work, I have been testing the interfaces of quite a number of services now. To make this investigation productive beyond conceptual reflection, I’ve been building digital methods research tools for every system I look at. Nothing beats getting your hands dirty. Since Google closed its search API some years ago, I haven’t really had a look at their services, but when a student of mine, Anouk Brouwer, started a thesis project on the booktube community on YouTube, I was not only fascinated by the booktube phenomenon and similar practices, but eager to revisit some older scripts and the new Data API v3 to see what kind of analyses would be possible.
The Ultimate OSINT Collection The danger of using the wrong metrics for policy making Adopted public policies affect everyone—They're called public for a reason after all. Nowhere is this truer than in the realm of defense policy. On the one hand, money spent on the military means money not spent on healthcare, education, infrastructure, or other important domestic spending priorities. On the other, underspending on defense may jeopardize the security of a nation and its people. No doubt, data plays a major role in policy formulation—that’s a good thing. In Chapter 2 of his book, Alberto looks at the infographic shown below and prepared by Folha de São Paulo—Brazil’s main newspaper—as part of a story highlighting Brazil’s new strategic defense plan.
Twitter Search, Monitoring, & Analytics With iOS 9, Search lets you look for content from the web, your contacts, apps, nearby places, and more. Powered by Siri, Search offers suggestions and updates results as you type. There are two ways to use Search on your iOS device. Quick Search Drag down from the middle of the Home screen and type what you're looking for. Siri Suggestions Drag right from the Home screen to show Search and get Siri Suggestions. Get Siri Suggestions Siri Suggestions include apps and contacts that you might be interested in. You can use Siri Suggestions with iPhone 5 and later, iPad Pro, iPad (4th generation) and later, iPad mini (2nd generation) and later, and iPod touch (6th generation). Change search settings Go to Settings > General > Spotlight Search. From here, you can turn Siri Suggestions on or off and choose which apps to include in your searches. If you don’t want Siri or Spotlight to suggest nearby locations, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services. Last Modified:
A Guide To Social Media Intelligence Gathering (SOCMINT) In my previous article, I introduced the term Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and talk about how it might be used to support intelligence needs. OSINT refers to all the information that is publicly available, many estimates show that 90 percent of useful information acquired by intelligence services comes from public sources (in other words, OSINT sources). OSINT sources are distinguished from other forms of intelligence because they must be legally accessible by the public without breaching any copyright, patents or privacy laws. That’s why they are considered “publicly available.” Social media sites open up numerous opportunities for online investigations because of the vast amount of useful information located in one place. This can all be found in one Facebook profile. Social media intelligence (SOCMINT) is a sub-branch of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), it refers to the information collected from social media websites. Social Media Content Types Facebook Legal notice! 2. 3. 4. 5.
untitled I was toying around with the idea of multivariate beer, along the same lines as Data Cuisine. I wanted to represent county demographics with beer ingredients. The higher a value, say, population density, the more hops I use, or the higher the median household income the more of a particular grain. For contrast I brewed county ales for Aroostook, Maine (low population density), Arlington, Virginia (high median household income), Bronx, New York (high population density), and Marin, California (high education rate). Could I taste and see the difference? The R script I wrote a quick function in R that spits out basic recipes. Download the code if you want to mess around with it. Nothing too fancy. Population density translates to total amount of hops. For example, here’s the recipe for Los Angeles County, California. The code also spits out some labels, which was more for fun than anything else. Brewing process I’m not an expert brewer by any sense of the word. The taste Wrapping up
GroWiki - API AlloCiné Depuis le temps qu'AlloCiné existe, aucune API n'a encore été faite, ce qui est quand même inadmissible pour ce site de référence. Donc jusqu'à lors, quiconque voulait utiliser AlloCiné pour récupérer des données sur tel ou tel film était obligé de faire du parsing sauvage de leur site web. Mais c'était sans compter sur un peu de reverse engineering bonne volonté ! Pour y arriver, je me suis servi de l'application AlloCiné disponible sur l'Android Market. Je l'ai donc installé sur mon téléphone tout en lançant en parallèle un tcpdump afin de capturer l'activité réseau. J'ai donc un peu navigué dans l'application afin de trouver les différents web services. Le premier web service movie est très intéressant étant donné qu'il permet de récupérer l'intégralité des informations d'un film pour peu qu'on connaisse son identifiant. Un problème subsiste tout de même : comment faire pour récupérer l'identifiant d'un film à partir de son titre ou bien de mots clés. Pas mal !
OSINT Resources Welcome to my work in progress! The site is deliberately informal, built for the low-tech beginner, because that's where anyone needs to start. I'm also trying to keep this concept-based rather than providing a lengthy list of links - links get stale, and you don't need 50 ways to search your number. Once this site built out further, I plan to have more advanced pages (I'm working through Automate The Boring Stuff with Python!) Get started first by identifying: What information do you have? Then turn to the below, or the navigation bar, to find out how to get there.