Author: OsintTrapper
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Emoji: Signals in Digital Noise
Emojis can become intelligence data. Online communities use them to signal group identity, communicate in code, and circumvent moderation and monitoring systems. Their meaning is not universal, but contextual, so it can be identified and understood.
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Debriefing a Broken Heart: A Review of "Emotional Cognitive Warfare"“
The most common professional bias of an intelligence analyst is analyzing everything, including romantic relationships. Astore dei Boschi's "Emotional Cognitive Warfare" begins precisely with this assumption, analyzing a "non-relationship" as if it were a war scenario. The author applies the concepts of HUMINT, cognitive bias, and cognitive warfare to the field of…
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Why do you need to know ICD 203?
Let's be clear: a lot of people pontificate online about OSInt. The problem? They often focus on the tools and techniques for data collection, completely neglecting the methodologies and analysis techniques to use. Collecting data isn't "doing OSInt." It's just taking up disk space. The real difference is made by you, OSInt analyst, with your skills...
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Mastodon: In Search of Elephants
In recent weeks, an increasing number of users have abandoned Twitter for another social network, Mastodon.
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The Argos Project
Over the last two months, we have been working on a script that would allow us to have an Osint virtual workstation in a few minutes. We called it Argos.