Author: OsintTrapper
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AI Can Multiply Expertise, Not Replace It
Let’s take a step back in time. It’s 2012: Italy’s Ministry of Education is about to publish, on its own website, an international research call about Tuscan pecorino cheese. Someone is tasked with translating the call into English. A simple job, if you know the language and can use machine translation, a fairly advanced tool…
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Why we built the Multilingual OSINT Glossary?
When you work in a multicultural environment, sooner or later you’ll find yourself looking up the exact meaning of a term you might need to study a text, prepare a presentation, or talk with other OSINT experts who don’t speak your language… and so on. So we decided to start work on a Multilingual OSINT…
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OSINT in 2026: the tools AI now knows how to use on its own
soxoj, the mind behind Maigret and more, has been keeping, for a few months now, a curated list of MCP servers for OSINT: connectors that let an LLM talk to shodan, virustotal and the company registries of 27 countries. Five years ago a list like that wouldn’t have made sense. Today it captures a phase…
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Artificial Intelligence and the Atrophy of Critical Thinking: Are We Training Our Successors or Digging Our Own Grave?
How many times have you been under pressure — the client or the boss needs answers by yesterday — and in front of you sits the inviting interface of Perplexity or Claude, promising to do in minutes the work that would take you hours, if not days? And here comes the deafening song of yet…
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Can you spot AI-generated content?
A few days ago I read an article in Il Post about a South Korean YouTuber arrested for defamation after sharing an AI-generated audio that wrecked the reputation of two of his fellow actors. The same day I came across two very interesting pieces on the problems of AI-generated content: a hands-on guide to analysing…
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Argos is back, and it’s not flying solo
While the blog was being slowly brought back online, we kept working on two projects that have proven useful for our day-to-day work and in which we are investing a fair amount of time. We have given Argos a new lease of life and, building on the experience gained, we have developed the first beta…