While the blog was slowly being brought back to life, we kept working on two projects that help us in our daily work and that we are investing quite a lot of time in.
We gave Argos a new life and, building on that experience, developed the first beta of Speculator.
Argos
Argos is the script we use to build the VMs we need for quick analyses: it installs all the resources required to run some of the investigations we cannot put any budget on. The repository is still the same and, besides updating it to the latest release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or Ubuntu Budgie 24.04 LTS, removing the tools that were no longer maintained and adding new ones, over the past few weeks we tidied up the documentation and started updating the various scripts that launch the tools.
July 2026 – The latest addition: Argos now supports Exploratores as well, our OSINT toolbox. The script installs it while the VM is being built, so the machine comes ready with roughly 900 searches from the toolkit.
Speculator
Speculator was born from the experience gained with Argos. It is the script adapted to Debian 13 “Trixie” machines. Like Argos it installs tools, configures the profile and, within a few dozen minutes, hands you a standardised environment ready to use. Try it yourself, starting from Speculator’s public repo.
The same update applies here: Speculator now installs Exploratores while the machine is being built, and sets it as the Firefox ESR start page (and a bookmark).
These weeks we are working on it to build a proper workflow and write an English FAQ page answering the most common questions: requirements, included tools, customisation of the Zenity scripts, how to contribute.
The name is no accident. The speculatores were a corps of the Roman army specialised in reconnaissance.
Why should you use one of these scripts?
Argos and Speculator target the same kind of analysts: people who need a starting point to build their own OSINT machine quickly and comfortably.
Both repositories are public and open to contributions and feedback. If you find a bug, if you think we left out a tool you use every day, if you have a proposal to improve the workflow, write to us!
Drop a comment, or come have a chat in our Telegram group.
This article was translated with the help of an AI language model and may contain inaccuracies.
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