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Our Last Post

BLUF: We have closed The OSINT Curious Project. Our website content and YouTube videos will remain online for the community to continue to use. It was December 3, 2018 when a group of OSINT enthusiasts, that would start The OSINT Curious Project (TOCP), met each other in the Dutch town of Papendal. It was the start of the three-day conference, called DEX-XL, organised by Dutch … Continue reading Our Last Post

Investigation Bias

For the past years, we have seen a growth in OSINT investigations and they have played a pivotal role in raising accountability and showing journalists, human rights investigators and government officials, among others, on the potential of using open source information in their activities. However, as the community grows and more and more people are conducting OSINT investigations, it is natural that more mistakes are … Continue reading Investigation Bias

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SMART: An OSINT crawler and aggregator

OSINT Curious would like to highlight the following blog post by one of its members. Micah Hoffman created a tool (https://smart.myosint.training) and blog post (https://webbreacher.com/2022/11/14/get-smart-about-osint). The tool he made crawls over 200 OSINT start.me sites and retrieves their URL resources…. over 84,000 URLs! All that data is aggregated and searchable in SMART (Start Me Aggregated Resource Tool). Continue reading SMART: An OSINT crawler and aggregator

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Quiztime: How To Clean Pictures For Better Search Results

OSINT Curious would like to highlight the following blog post by one of its members. https://nixintel.info/osint/quiztime-how-to-clean-pictures-for-better-search-results/. Steven Harris wrote a blog post describing how to remove cluttering data from images to get higher quality reverse image searches. He also walks the reader through his thought processes on how to geolocate the image. Continue reading Quiztime: How To Clean Pictures For Better Search Results

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OSINT in a Metaverse

The term Metaverse, a collection of immersive 3D worlds with a social element, is constantly in the news, especially now that Meta is also building their own one. Years ago it started with Second Life, but with the popularity of VR headsets, and more computer power, these environments are slowly taking off. Recently I have looked around in the metaverse of Spatial and had to … Continue reading OSINT in a Metaverse

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Grabbing old Bitmoji outfits with BACKMOJI

OSINT Curious would like to highlight the following blog post by one of its members. https://webbreacher.com/2022/10/24/grabbing-old-bitmoji-outfits-with-backmoji/. Micah reveals a tool he created based upon the work of Griffin (Hatless1der) Glynn to display old versions of Bitmoji social media avatars. Continue reading Grabbing old Bitmoji outfits with BACKMOJI

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Five tips to get you started in OSINT!

If you are one of the thousands of new people just learning about the powerful field of OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence), then you also are probably getting overwhelmed with all of the resources that you have to read and watch. In the past 5 years or so, the OSINT world has exploded with amazing, informative blogs and videos that can help you learn the field. To … Continue reading Five tips to get you started in OSINT!