OSINT

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OSINT#

Open-source intelligence. Collection, processing, and analysis of publicly available information; the broadest collection discipline by volume and the cheapest by access cost.

OSINT covers the surface web indexed by search engines, the public-facing parts of social media, public records (corporate filings, court records, FOIA, land records), broadcast and print media, commercial data brokers, and the open layer of the research and academic literature.

The pages under this section follow the operator’s standard working set:

  • OSINT Tools for the operator’s daily kit.

  • OSINT Sources for the data sources collection draws from.

  • OSINT Techniques for the tradecraft applied to those sources.

  • OSINT Intel for the finished-product side, production cycle, and consumers.

  • OSINT APIs for the programmatic data sources the operator pulls from.

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