Non-Typical OSINT Immersive & Gamified Learning: Tricks (a)
I can also recommend that you turn to an interesting subculture that is suitable for introverts! I am sure that everyone is interested in various strange phenomena in one way or another. Immerse yourself in a net-stalking environment!
Sometimes ordinary people were able to solve crimes which the police could not solve for years with OSINT and GEOINT alone (I could put in here links to subreddits, movies and news but since you and I are now doing OSINT I advise you to find it on your own).
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- What is Netstalking? https://graph.org/What-is-Netstalking-Netstalking-Information-Survivors-04-06
- GEOGUESSR https://somerandomstuff1.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/geoguessr-the-top-tips-tricks-and-techniques/
- SunCalc Calculator http://suncalc.net/
- Mind Hacks – Psychological profiling, and mental health in OSINT investigations https://youtu.be/104WpJm_eGk
- A Method for Teaching Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Using Personalised Cloud-based Exercises https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340023320_A_Method_for_Teaching_Open_Source_Intelligence_OSINT_Using_Personalised_Cloud-based_Exercises
- The RIS Open Source Intelligence Cycle https://rieas.gr/images/jmbi/ReuserArno.pdf
Also check out:
- Alternate Reality Game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game
- reddit.com/r/ARG http://reddit.com/r/ARG
- Net.art https://officercia.mirror.xyz/VD9IDI8b4jVBHbr5uaGcI_ev6NEKZUuuOhL9IpEfpZs
- Applied Anthropology Research Methods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_Anthropology_Research_Methods
- Reflections on Becoming an Applied Anthropologist https://www.jstor.org/stable/25605413
- Applied Anthopology (really, study it!) https://oxfordre.com/anthropology/browse;jsessionid=469E22D5E27E148C59A31BA5715AD18D?page=3&pageSize=20&sort=titlesort&subSite=anthropology&t0=ORE_ANT%3AREFANT001
The main thing to remember is your health, it is above all, do not let your principles be shaken by what you see. You are an observer! Here well helps to understand the psychology of SCP researchers https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ (when nothing is clear, but the scientific method helps to put everything in its place).
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- Netstalking: In-Depth https://graph.org/What-is-Netstalking-Netstalking-Information-Survivors-04-06
- How I found early Solana ecosystem Developers using OSINT tactics https://telegra.ph/How-I-found-early-Solana-ecosystem-Developers-using-OSINT-tactics-01-04
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity https://web.archive.org/web/20220302223645/https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.html
- OpSec researches and data terminals - contributions are welcome. https://github.com/OffcierCia/Crypto-OpSec-SelfGuard-RoadMap
- Dork Yourself Before Someone Does! https://yvesei.medium.com/dork-yourself-before-someone-does-aa49d0c1929f
Keep in mind that in this part of the Global Internet (I mean OSINT in general, not only the Net-stalking), the percentage of people who are actively looking for problems or need to express their emotions is no different from other places!
- Act like a Lion 🦁 https://twitter.com/jpurd17/status/1648669362910552067?s=20
- obsidian.md OSINT Templates https://github.com/WebBreacher/obsidian-osint-templates
- OSINT Browser Extensions https://github.com/cqcore/OSINT-Browser-Extensions
- Improve Fast Reaction: Techniques to Enhance Your Reflexes https://medium.com/@joaoaniceto.webdeveloper/improve-fast-reaction-techniques-to-enhance-your-reflexes-fe052a8f2459
- The most skilled analysts in Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) can make mistakes, but it is important to anticipate and revisit these in order to avoid them! https://cybernitewatch.com/2023/06/11/10-mistakes-osint-analysts-make-the-importance-of-accuracy-and-integrity/
Science + OSINT:
- How Occam's Razor Works https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-experiments/occams-razor.htm
- Occam's Razor as a Scientific Principle https://study.com/learn/lesson/occams-razor-scientific-principle.html#:~:text=Occam's%20Razor%20is%20a%20principle%20which%20states%20that%20plurality%20should,used%20a%20little%20more%20loosely.
- CASE STUDY: Personality Profiling and the Power of OSINT https://brightplanet.com/2016/11/09/case-study-receptiviti-power-osint/
- An Enriched Threat Intelligence Platform for improving OSINT correlation, analysis, visualization and sharing capabilities https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214212620308589
- 'Deduction' vs. 'Induction' vs. 'Abduction' https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/deduction-vs-induction-vs-abduction
- The Difference Between Deductive and Inductive Reasoning https://danielmiessler.com/p/the-difference-between-deductive-and-inductive-reasoning/
- Induction Rhetoric https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/english/rhetoric/induction-rhetoric/
- Deductive and Inductive Reasoning: Definition, Differences & Examples https://mundanopedia.com/economics/microeconomics/deductive-and-inductive-reasoning-methods/
Practising:
So, follow OpSec rules and don't make too many mistakes. Conduct your activities from a separate, isolated device.
- Privacy Concerns and Acceptance Factors of OSINT for Cybersecurity: A Representative Survey https://petsymposium.org/popets/2023/popets-2023-0028.pdf
- What Are Heuristics? https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-heuristic-2795235
- OSINT Trends for 2023 and Beyond https://blog.sociallinks.io/osint-trends-for-2023-and-beyond/
- The Wide-Ranging Uses of OSINT in Military Intelligence https://blog.sociallinks.io/uses-of-osint-in-military-intelligence/
- Better Utilizing Publicly Available Information https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/resrep20002.7.pdf
- Practices of Science: False Positives and False Negatives https://manoa.hawaii.edu/exploringourfluidearth/chemical/matter/properties-matter/practices-science-false-positives-and-false-negatives
- False Positives and False Negatives in Information Security https://www.guardrails.io/blog/false-positives-and-false-negatives-in-information-security/
- Minimize False Positives in Your OSINT Investigations https://mediasonar.com/reports/minimize-false-positives-osint-investigations/
- Social Engineering and the Protection of High-Value Targets https://www.hensoldt-analytics.com/2023/01/23/social-engineering-osint/
- Trace My Shadow Game https://myshadow.org/trace-my-shadow
- What we talk about when we talk about OSINT https://www.authentic8.com/blog/definition-of-osint
- Publicly Available Information: The Secret to Unclassified Data, Part I https://overthehorizonmdos.wpcomstaging.com/2019/04/08/publicly-available-information-the-secret-to-unclassified-data-part-i/ & Copy https://web.archive.org/web/20191117062938/https://othjournal.com/2019/04/08/publicly-available-information-the-secret-to-unclassified-data-part-i/
- Improve Your Memory With a Simple Diffuser From eBay https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1200448/full
Cognitive bias mitigation & decision-making when doing OSINT:
There are no perfect practitioners-analysts, everyone makes mistakes and gets into difficult ambiguous situations (at least once in their life), all the more in conditions of acutely intensive and chronic work overload. And it is absolutely necessary for a practitioner-analyst to know and understand such situations.
Cognitive vulnerabilities (in the established understanding) are exposures and/or tendencies to defects in thinking: significant cognitive distortions, erroneous beliefs, cognitive biases (biases), or stereotyped patterns of thinking that create the basis for a person's predisposition to cognitive failures and lead to distortions and dysfunctions of thought processes https://telegra.ph/Cognitive-vulnerabilities-of-the-practitioner-analyst-04-17.
- Cognitive vulnerabilities of the practitioner-analyst https://telegra.ph/Cognitive-vulnerabilities-of-the-practitioner-analyst-04-17
- Cognitive Bias Mitigation https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317702457_Cognitive_Bias_Mitigation
- Recognizing and Mitigating Cognitive Biases: A Threat to Objectivity https://www.theiia.org/en/content/communications/press-releases/2022/may/new-recognizing-and-mitigating-cognitive-biases-a-threat-to-objectivity/
- Cognitive Bias Mitigation: How to Make Decision-Making Rational? https://ideas.repec.org/p/fau/wpaper/wp2020_01.html
- The Impact of Cognitive Biases on Professionals’ Decision-Making: A Review of Four Occupational Areas https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8763848/
- HARKing: hypothesizing after the results are known https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15647155/
- Hypothesizing after the results are known (HARKing) https://embassy.science/wiki/Theme:Cc742a7b-826d-4201-b33e-457f2ef79fb9 & Paper https://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~schaller/528Readings/Kerr1998.pdf
- Cognitive vulnerability https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_vulnerability
- Why do we focus on one characteristic to compare when choosing between alternatives? https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/take-the-best-heuristic & More https://fourweekmba.com/take-the-best-heuristic/
- Are Cyber Attackers Thinking Fast and Slow? https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1071181319631096
- US Comission Report - 2005 https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/wmd/about.html
- 5 Cognitive Biases could affect your OSINT investigations https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-cognitive-biases-could-affect-your-osint-investigations-?utm_source=share&utm_medium=guest_mobile_web&utm_campaign=copy
Most of us experience 'gut feelings' we can't explain, such as instantly loving (or hating) a new property when we're househunting or the snap judgments we make on meeting new people. Now researchers say these feelings (or intuitions) - are real and we should take our hunches seriously.
Don't limit yourself to one approach; don't be afraid to try experiments, but keep in mind that the outcomes of such approaches should always be double-checked. They serve more as learning tools than as actual advice for investigators. Visit the following websites:
- Intuition Is More Than Just A Hunch, Says New Research https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080305144210.htm
- Intuition as Emergence: Bridging Psychology, Philosophy and Organizational Science https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.787428/full
- Intelligence Analysis: Structured Methods or Intuition? https://www.academia.edu/4259879/Intelligence_Analysis_Structured_Methods_or_Intuition
- The Potential of Integrating Intelligence and Intuition https://www.thecipherbrief.com/the-potential-of-integrating-intelligence-and-intuition
Also:
According to wondersmith_rae https://wondersmithrae.medium.com/training-yourself-to-be-an-analytical-thinker-476bdb7e7c99: In classical rhetoric, the “elements of circumstance” created by Aristotle have been used to analyze rhetorical questions for ages. They also apply to modern-day analysis and can be used as a foundation for an investigation. (Who, what, when, where, why, in what way, by what means)
A condensed yet equally valuable version of the elements is called the “5W’s and an H” or Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How. These questions have been used in rhetoric, religious study, police investigations, journalism, and by lawyers since ancient Greece. It is said that an investigation can not be truly complete until all of the Ws and the H can be answered.
Applying the same elements to our OSINT investigations we can ask and answer similar questions. By answering https://officercia.mirror.xyz/y7qzSLS8qZuU_fdHcrYyN7eZxGzfo_Z5avmNHqhbrZU the 5W’s a narrative begins to emerge from our collected data. It is now up to us as analysts to connect the dots in a succinct way. The catch is, that anyone who has done research knows that when information starts to be uncovered it is easy to get stuck in a rabbit hole.
- The Power of Shutting Down Your Senses: How to Boost Your Creativity and Have a Clear Mind https://buffer.com/resources/the-power-of-shutting-down-your-senses-how-to-boost-your-creativity-and-have-a-clear-mind/amp/
- Using the OSINT Mind-State for Better Online Investigations https://www.sans.org/webcasts/atmic-talk-osint-mind-state-online-investigations-114115/
- Latest Trends in SOCMINT, OSINT & Cyber-Psychology https://www.toddington.com/wp-content/uploads/1Day_OSINT_Masterclass-1-1.pdf
- Citizen OSINT Analysts: Motivations of Open-Source Intelligence Volunteers https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1670900&dswid=-6049
- New guide on investigating and mapping perpetrators in open-source investigations https://piac.asn.au/2023/03/29/new-guide-on-investigating-and-mapping-perpetrators-in-open-source-investigations/
- An Overseas Businessman Died and Left Me $4.6M, So I Used OSINT & Social Engineering to Scam a Scammer https://hatless1der.com/an-overseas-businessman-died-and-left-me-4-6m-so-i-used-osint-social-engineering-to-scam-a-scammer/
- Cchatgpt-unlock-geolocation-data https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/4-chatgpt-unlock-geolocation-data
- Telegram-osint-vm-part-2 https://www.cqcore.uk/telegram-osint-vm-part-2/
- Safeguarding OSINTers: Shielding Against Disinformation Manipulation https://osintteam.blog/safeguarding-osinters-shielding-against-disinformation-manipulation-dfbbfbf1db08
- Unveiling the Digital Detective: Essential OSINT Tools and Techniques for Investigators. https://osintteam.blog/unveiling-the-digital-detective-essential-osint-tools-and-techniques-for-investigators-adf486ad2ccd
Once you can distinguish the information, sort it out then the next thing you can do is start practicing. As you know, good practice requires good motivation! You only need to know one thing: people think that intelligence is fixed — but it isn’t. Your brain is like a muscle; the more you use it, the more it grows. Education is no longer a one-time event, but a lifelong experience.
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- Beginners Field Guide: Where & How to Learn OSINT https://medium.com/the-sleuth-sheet/beginners-field-guide-where-how-to-learn-osint-bd2e11469f31
- Traps used by cyber detectives… https://medium.com/@ibederov_en/traps-used-by-cyber-detectives-c778b4853f1a
- MAC Address Investigation https://t.me/ibederov_en/18
- The ULTIMATE Guide to Writing Intelligence Reports… https://www.intelligence101.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-writing-intelligence-reports-complete-with-templates-examples/
- Business Resilience Resources https://start.me/p/wMgzM5/business-resilience
- Person OSINT investigation workflow from a privacy perspective https://www.osintme.com/index.php/2022/08/31/person-osint-investigation-workflow-from-a-privacy-perspective/
- Setting Your Moral Compass: A Workbook for Applied Ethics in OSINT https://ethicaljournalismnetwork.org/setting-your-moral-compass-a-workbook-for-applied-ethics-in-osint
- Reddit Bureau of Investigation https://www.reddit.com/r/RBI/
- The Dark Arts of OSINT https://av.tib.eu/en/media/38959
- OSINT Wiki https://www.reddit.com/r/OSINT/wiki/index/
- OSINT Map https://cipher387.github.io/osintmap
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Recent surveys show https://4discovery.com/2019/09/10/litigating-in-an-e-world-e-discovery-forensics-and-open-source-intelligence-in-legal-research/ that over 97% of businesses store data in the Cloud. Learn how to identify potential sources of Cloud data, issue discovery requests, and implement litigation holds, as well as how to preserve, collect, filter, review, and produce Cloud data.
Information relevant https://4discovery.com/2019/09/10/litigating-in-an-e-world-e-discovery-forensics-and-open-source-intelligence-in-legal-research/ to your case is on the Internet, usually hiding in plain sight. Business records, domain name registrations, websites, online user identities, social media posts, photos, and videos are only a search query away. Do you know how to find it? Learn how open source information can impact a broad range of matters and how to effectively identify sources of information and search for open source data.
- Criminals Language from a Psycholinguistics point of view https://www.paperdue.com/essay/criminals-language-from-a-psycholinguistics-1851
- USING LANGUAGE ANALYSIS FOR IDENTIFYING AND ASSESSING OFFENDERS https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340985509_FORENSIC_PSYCHOLINGUISTICS_USING_LANGUAGE_ANALYSIS_FOR_IDENTIFYING_AND_ASSESSING_OFFENDERS
- Forensic Psycholinguistics Using Language Analysis for Identifying and Assessing https://criminalprofiling.com/forensic-psycholinguistics-using-language-analysis-for-identifying-and-assessing/
- The Ultimate Guide to Human Intelligence (HUMINT) https://www.intelligence101.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-human-intelligence-humint/
- Undermining social engineering using open source intelligence gathering https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283250856_Undermining_social_engineering_using_open_source_intelligence_gathering
- Signal OSINT - SIGINT https://worldwidescience.org/topicpages/o/osint+signals+intelligence.html
- E-Discovery, Forensics, and Open Source Intelligence in Legal Research https://4discovery.com/2019/09/10/litigating-in-an-e-world-e-discovery-forensics-and-open-source-intelligence-in-legal-research/
- From Dissent to OSINT? Understanding, Influencing, and Protecting Roles, Reputation, and Revenue https://complexdiscovery.com/from-dissent-to-osint-understanding-influencing-and-protecting-roles-reputation-and-revenue/
- The Basics: What is e-Discovery? https://cdslegal.com/knowledge/the-basics-what-is-e-discovery/
- A system for organizing, collecting, and presenting open-source intelligence https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42488-022-00068-4
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