Citizen Detective Resources
If you’re among the 82% of Americans with an active social media account like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn, count yourself as one of the people who may be giving strangers the opportunity to look into your personal lives—without much effort. When using...
Citizen Detective Resources
Have you ever thought about cutting the strings with Google? Maybe you haven’t gone full into OSINT, but there’s no doubt that Google is powerful; and, depending upon how you look at it, that can be a good thing or a bad thing. Admittedly, there’s a of...
Citizen Detective Resources
Every citizen detective can tell you that their favorite cold case investigation movie or true crime TV show has at least one of these scenes: 1. The leading detective is deep in thought, staring at a wall or corkboard of a case of a missing or murdered person. 2. A...
Citizen Detective Resources
You don’t have to be an investigative journalist to gain access to the millions of documents, emails, computer files, photographs, audiotapes, films that are considered public records under the law. It’s undeniable that news teams and advocacy groups have unveiled...
Citizen Detective Resources
When was the last time you headed to your public library? Or logged in to access its massive amounts of resources via an online search? Maybe it’s been a while. Or perhaps it’s only been a week or two. But chances are you have no idea how much public information you...
Citizen Detective Resources
While it’s been getting an increasing amount of attention in recent years, OSINT—which stands for open source intelligence— is nothing new. It has its roots in the military, which primarily used OSINT decades ago to gather publicly available material, including...
