Author: OsintTrapper
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OSInt on China: a look beyond the wall
For a few years now, for study and for work, I’ve been developing my own processes and tools to do OSInt on Chinese targets. It all started both for academic reasons, as a student at Ca’ Foscari, and through CTI work, where reconstructing the behaviour and structure of Chinese adversaries was an integral part of…
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Exploratores, my OSINT toolbox
At the top of my OSINT library, right now, there are two books: OSINT Techniques by Michael Bazzell and Deep Dive by Rae Baker. They take different approaches, but both are very hands-on and both have proved very useful over time. And it is precisely from one of them that this story begins. In chapter…
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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…