OSINT researcherhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3lhfbcsueuc2dNext issue will expand the basis of fitness-based OSINT, providing new options for data beyond Strava, MyFitnessPal, etc.05 Feb 2025 00:00 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhfbcsueuc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3lgyjdqzwj226The latest issue of The #OSINT Newsletter was released earlier today. 🌶️ A Deep Dive into Truth Social for OSINT Plus the latest and greatest in news, tools, tactics, and techniques. osintnewsletter.com/p/63 https://osintnewsletter.com/p/6330 Jan 2025 22:19 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgyjdqzwj226https://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3lgticoz3fs24Coming out later this week, a deep dive into Truth Social for OSINT. ⚡️ Including how to download entire follower and following lists (within reason)28 Jan 2025 22:18 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgticoz3fs24https://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3lgo4zg23mc2pJust finished Issue 63 of The OSINT Newsletter. 3000+ word deep dive into Truth Social including new methods for collection.26 Jan 2025 19:12 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgo4zg23mc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3lg7il6c7ns2sThe #OSINT Newsletter now has over 20,000 subscribers. To all of those who stuck with me, thank you. I'm looking forward to another exciting year of OSINT news, tools, tactics, and techniques.20 Jan 2025 23:29 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg7il6c7ns2shttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3lfy36t5usc2rThe next issue with be a deep dive into Truth Social. There’s a lot of interesting data you can uncover that isn’t present in the UI.18 Jan 2025 00:41 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfy36t5usc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3lfuig7f52c2kThe latest issue of The #OSINT Newsletter is now live. Using Raw Audio for OSINT (Geolocation) Plus the latest news, tools, tactics, and techniques. H/T: @cybdetective.bsky.social and more... osintnewsletter.com/p/62 https://osintnewsletter.com/p/6216 Jan 2025 14:27 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfuig7f52c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3lfkzx6idik2yThe next issue of The #OSINT Newsletter has gone into final draft. ⚡ Using Raw Audio for OSINT (Geolocation) I dive into machine learning models that can identify unique sounds, providing opportunities for geolocation. osintnewsletter.com/p/62 https://osintnewsletter.com/p/6212 Jan 2025 20:14 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfkzx6idik2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3lercvhrbhk2vThe first issue of The #OSINT Newsletter in 2025 is now out. Learn how to build UI enhancement tools to leverage investigator-specific data. This is the first issue with audio content, preparing for the relaunch of The OSINT Podcast. H/T: @cybdetective.bsky.social osintnewsletter.com/p/61 https://osintnewsletter.com/p/6102 Jan 2025 14:45 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lercvhrbhk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3led5l22ss22gA sneak peak at the next issue of The OSINT Newsletter. Using the Reddit JSON feature, you can enhance the information displayed on page using a bookmarklet. Here's a demo of the bookmarklet in its basic form.27 Dec 2024 23:32 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3led5l22ss22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3le7lh6cwvs2bGoing to start writing the next issue of The OSINT Newsletter today. Focus will be on bypassing Reddit APIs, sort of, for collection at scale. I’ll also be teasing a bit of audio in preparation for the return of the podcast.26 Dec 2024 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3le7lh6cwvs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3ldlgq3jafc2jI added my stretch goal, web scraping. When this tool goes live, there will also be an option to input a URL where the app will then scrape images from that page (if possible) for additional images. I also added in an option to download all matching images at the end. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Dec 2024 13:12 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldlgq3jafc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3ldk4rmngkk2dFace recognition investigation tool MVP is complete. - Upload target images - Upload images to compare against target images - Adjust sensitivity - See which photos match and at what confidence I'll write about building this tool in this week's issue.18 Dec 2024 00:42 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldk4rmngkk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3ldj4hgqp6s2vAll of the tools I’m seeing to obscure your own images from face recognition scraping operations are either no longer work or are too complicated for most to use. I’ll fix that next month.17 Dec 2024 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldj4hgqp6s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3ldiyocvowk2jThe free portion of the OSINT newsletter is done. Working on the paid content today. Hopefully this will be an easy to use, useful face recognition tool you can use in your investigations.17 Dec 2024 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldiyocvowk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3ld35uvm5qs2gThe next #OSINT Newsletter comes out on December 19th. This issue will dive into making a face recognition tool using free sources that works in your browser (not CLI). We’ll take a look at limitations with a special look at the ongoing Luigi Mangione case. osintnewsletter.com https://osintnewsletter.com/12 Dec 2024 01:51 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld35uvm5qs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3lcw4w7gfnc2dBlueSky #OSINT Tool is almost done. I'm calling it BlueSkyNet. It'll have the following functionality: - Unlimited top posts, latest posts, people, and feeds (feeds is 100) - All advanced search options - Export to CSV If interested, help me test it at the-osint-newsletter.github.io/blueskynet/10 Dec 2024 01:51 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcw4w7gfnc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3lctzezft3s2pI definitely meant tomorrow 😅 [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Dec 2024 05:42 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lctzezft3s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3lcsjero2wc24An MVP of the BlueSky #OSINT tool will go live tonight. Here’s an overview: - Larger limit search options - Structured advanced search filters - Full profiles and posts, including images - CSV export (stretch)08 Dec 2024 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcsjero2wc24https://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3lcpxcyfpqc2fBy the way, I know there’s a BlueSky API. This is for demonstration purposes only 🤓 [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Dec 2024 14:55 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcpxcyfpqc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3lcpx4bxlts2fI’ll be adding BlueSky advanced search options to my #OSINT tool this week and publish it for free. Web app, not a CLI tool. https://bsky.social/about/blog/05-31-2024-search [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Dec 2024 14:51 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcpx4bxlts2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3lcndnoq5ws2yI’ll be working on adding my BlueSky OSINT tool to GitHub next week. I’m going away from Python-based CLI tools and aiming to publish web apps hosted on GitHub pages to they’re more accessible to people from different skill levels. I’ll post them here: https://github.com/The-OSINT-Newsletter06 Dec 2024 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcndnoq5ws2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3lcjpagd6pk25osintnewsletter.com/p/59 https://osintnewsletter.com/p/5905 Dec 2024 03:14 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcjpagd6pk25https://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3lcjhtblucv2bIf you're seeing this, guess what's coming out in this week's newsletter? Look around.05 Dec 2024 01:02 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcjhtblucv2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3kdjzu46kc22rThe 29th issue of The #OSINT Newsletter is published! ⚡️ Learn how to search for Spaces/audio on Twitter/X by keyword and extract information about those audio sessions 📘 Preorder the first print edition of The OSINT Newsletter osintnewsletter.com/p/29 https://osintnewsletter.com/p/2906 Nov 2023 18:23 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3kdjzu46kc22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3kcxvcr2tyk26The latest issue of The OSINT Newsletter is out! ⚡️ Learn how to download followers and following lists from Twitter/X accounts without scraping 📰 5 OSINT news articles 🐦 5 OSINT community posts 🔧 5 OSINT tools osintnewsletter.com/p/28 https://osintnewsletter.com/p/2830 Oct 2023 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3kcxvcr2tyk26https://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3kbgln7jmko2pDoes anyone use this or what? People keep following me but I haven’t really given them a reason to.10 Oct 2023 22:40 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbgln7jmko2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jakecreps.bsky.social/post/3k4woqqt27i2d🚨 A new issue of The OSINT Newsletter is out! It's time for the August OSINT review... ✅ OSINT News ✅ OSINT Community Posts ✅ New OSINT Methods & Tools https://osintnewsletter.com/p/the-osint-newsletter-august-202314 Aug 2023 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:omyxo5papcyyejhd5o7dssfh/app.bsky.feed.post/3k4woqqt27i2d