The OSINT Curious Project

All good things come to an end, and OSINT Curious is no exception. In our final live stream, we are coming together to discuss why the project is finalized, and what is going to happen to the blog posts, videos, our discord channel, and all other material that we published along the years.   We also give a big, heartfelt THANK YOU to all of our sponsors and patreons for supporting us in running this project, but also our listeners/viewers and everyone else that has been following us on this journey, developed their OSINT skills with us, and shared comments, questions and resources.    Last, we share some of our favorite moments within OSINT Curious and discuss what's next for each of us.  Thank you all for being here. Don't forget to...STAY OSINT CURIOUS!!! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

This week, Micah (@WebBreacher), Michael James (@Ginsberg5150) and Christina (@ChristinaLekati) talk with Loránd Bodó (@LorandBodo) about his new project OSINT Jobs (https://www.osint-jobs.com), a platform that shares hand-picked, OSINT-related job openings and helps the OSINT community grow their skills and advance their careers.  They discuss about the diversity of OSINT-related jobs in different industries, and about how Loránd is curating the job opportunities he publishes on the website.  They also talk about utilizing the content that is published within www.osint-jobs.com which includes interviews, blog posts and a podcast. Those resources help individuals to better understand what career path to follow within the realm of OSINT, how to develop the skills necessary for their dream job, and how to get connected and apply for jobs.   Last, they talked about doing freelance work and getting a fair pay for OSINT services, along with answering viewer questions. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

Join The OSINT Curious Project team as we talk about some news and tools in #OSINT. This week, Micah (@WebBreacher) and Christina (@ChristinaLekati) briefly talk about the new OSINT Curious blog : "Location of an IP Address" and the dangers of relying too heavily on the geolocations that become available through IP addresses. Sector035 (@Sector035), who authored the blog, will cover this topic in more detail next week. They also talked about the Geowifi, a tool that aggregates wifi data from multiple sources, and discussed #OSINT use cases with the tool Cleanup.Pictures, a tool that is used to retouch images by removing objects, people, texts and other disturbances. Micah and Christina also talked about the role of gut feelings and hunches in OSINT as well as how they can support or hinder the intelligence analysis process. Listening to our gut feeling is important, but in intelligence analysis one needs to also be aware of their biases, and of how their past experiences might affect their gut feeling and their judgement. Last, they talked about Obsidian, a note-taking and knowledge management tool that provides many possibilities when it comes to documenting, organizing, and creating connections between data - or even their thoughts. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

Our @ChristinaLekati, @LorandBodo & @Webbreacher spoke to Sarah (@UnleashedOSINT) about her career, teaching youth in online safeguarding practices, OSINT, ethics, and much more. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

In our new interview @lorandbodo talked to terrorist financing expert @JessMarinDavis about her career, her new book "Illicit Money", & what role #OSINT can play in combating terrorist financing Follow Jessica on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JessMarinDavisSubscribe to her newsletter: https://insightintel.substack.com/Get her new book Illicit Money on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Illicit-Money-Financing-Terrorism-Twenty-First/dp/1626379823/  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

In this week's OSINTCurious interview, we spoke to Freddy M., a Senior Threat Intelligence analyst and experienced intelligence expert on the steps involved in producing intelligence. Freddy walks us through his intelligence architecture map, which is a very detailed visual representation of all the steps involved.   Freddy's intelligence architecture map can be found here.   Join us on our OSINTCurious Discord.   Reach out to Freddy on Discord. His name is Furdy.   For more #OSINT, follow us on Twitter. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

This week, Micah Hoffman, Christina Lekati, John TerBush, and Josh Huff talked with Nicole Beckwith (https://twitter.com/NicoleBeckwith) about mental health in OSINT investigations.  This conversation was filled with practical advice and tips that you can apply before, during and after an investigation.  We talked about the Honeycomb effect and about preparing your investigative workspace by creating as few mental anchors as possible in order to have a clear separation between investigating and the rest of your everyday life and activities.  We analyzed the H.A.L.T. technique, which refers to checking whether you are Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired before or during an investigation, and making sure that you take care of those needs.  We also talked about listening to your body to recognize signs of tension during an investigation and taking a step back when you recognize these signs by applying the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding method: focusing on 5 things that you see, 4 things that you feel, 3 things that you hear, 2 things that you smell and 1 thing that you taste- preferably lemon water.  We finished our conversation by discussing the flip side of the coin- getting into your target's mind, establishing their baseline and finding their motives. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

This week, @IWN_LX & @LorandBodo spoke to @JannaJoceli a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS). Main topic of discussion - digital research methods & as usual lots of #OSINT --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

In this week's OSINTCurious interview, we spoke to Lana, an analyst at a German law enforcement agency. She told us about her career, challenges she faces and gave us insights into the daily tasks of an OSINT analyst at an LE agency. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

This week we interviewed Kevin Metcalf, a former federal agent turned prosecutor and founder of the National Child Protection Task Force (NCPTF). Kevin told us about the history of the organisation, how OSINT is being used to find missing children as well as prosecute predators, and some of the challenges the organisation faces when doing such work. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

In this week's interview the #osintcurious crew interviews Tokyo (@Tokyo_v2). She is a well known person within the Open Source Intelligence community about her blogs on #OSINT in Japan and doing OSINT on Airbnb. She is also part of and actively contributes to the @teamsearchlight OSINT crew. We talk with her about what got her into #OSINT how she tackles her self paced learning within OSINT. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

In this week's interview the #osintcurious crew interviews Dan Nemec (@djnemec). He is a software developer at a large company and spends a lot of his spare time on OSINT. Dan's contributions are very well known within the OSINT community. We talk to him about how he got into developing #OSINT tools and how he uses #python coding to speed up certain repetitive tasks. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

In this episode, the #osintcurious crew interviews John Marquee (@john_marquee). He is an Open Source investigator and very well known for his #geolocating skills. John also contributed to #BBCAfricaEye, #NYtimes and #Amnesty international projects. We talk to him about how he got into #OSINT. John also talks about how one can get better at geolocating giving some excellent tips and tradecraft tricks. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

In this episode the #osintcurious crew interviews Robert Baptiste (@fs0c131y a.k.a Elliot Alderson). He is a well known #cyber security researcher with lots of mobile application reverse #malware engineering skills.  We talk with him about how he overlaps reverse engineering with #OSINT as well as his new company that makes #bigdata available to fight #disinformation amongst other subjects. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

Check out our interview with Rui Barros. Rui is a Portuguese data journalist and uses data to tell stories. His visualizations and work can be found on his website: https://ruimgbarros.com/projects/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support