Resources, methods, and observations from open-source investigations and technical research. Topics include information assessment, digital infrastructure, investigative workflows, and the online information environment.
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I took a day to figure out exactly what I wanted to talk about at the GISEC Conference next month in Dubai and came up
I’ve never been a massive fan of flying, but it’s funny how surviving an 18-hour flight to Singapore makes a 4-hour cross-country flight seem like
Open source intelligence (OSINT) often requires digging into corners of the web that aren’t publicly visible. Enter ArchiveBox, a self-hosted web archiving tool that lets
I was recently discussing the replica watch ecosystem with a friend and found it a fascinating topic worthy of an AI-assisted irrelevent weekend blog post!
All right, once again, I know this isn’t a travel blog, but it’s a irelevant weekend blog post, and it’s my blog so I’m kind
I am super excited to announce that next month I will be speaking at the GISEC Global conference in Dubai! It is the largest security
One of the topics I’ve been working on a bit is using AI to make Mermaid chart diagrams for threat modeling and visualization. I asked
This morning, a friend sent me a link to a story about a vulnerability in Cursor. Anyone who reads my blog or has heard me
I know I talk about Deep Research from OpenAI a lot, but every once in a while it still does something that absolutely amazes me.
I asked OpenAI’s Deep Research to write me a blog post on using Shodan to find exposed JSON data. Here are the results! Cybersecurity professionals
Ever since OpenAI started including Deep Research in with the normal $20/month paid plan (albeit with a limit of 10 uses), I’ve been crunching the
