OSINT Techniques
Open-source intelligence gathering, geolocation, social media analysis
28 episodes
#3778: How Ukraine's Trophy Lab Crowdsources Enemy Hardware Analysis
Ukraine's Ministry of Defence publishes full engineering data of captured Russian equipment online. No registration required.
#3768: Testing Premises Before They Fail
How structured techniques and AI frameworks challenge assumptions in high-stakes scenarios before they become failures.
#3713: How a Real PI Manages Thousands of Photos
Phone camera rolls don't cut it. Here's how real PIs organize, tag, and store thousands of evidence photos per month.
#3646: What Replaces the CIA World Factbook?
The CIA killed its iconic almanac. Here are the best alternatives for country data.
#3622: How OSINT Spots Electronic Warfare
How hobbyists track GPS jamming, radar ghosts, and the hidden signals of modern conflict.
#3467: How to Actually Read People (It’s Not What You Think)
Thin-slice judgment, microexpressions, and why introverts may have an edge in spotting lies.
#2899: Can We Trust Palestinian Polls in Wartime?
How one man's surveys became the world's only window into Palestinian opinion—and whether the data is real.
#2875: How Polls Actually Make Samples "Representative
The secret behind "representative samples" — and why the margin of error is just the beginning of the story.
#2868: Measuring Hidden Opinions in Iran and China
How researchers use digital snowball sampling and list experiments to gauge real public sentiment under authoritarian rule.
#2845: Why Reading Patents Is Always Free
Google Patents, Espacenet, and the secret weapon of classification codes for tracking ANC innovation.
#2648: The Art of the Brief: Writing What Busy People Actually Need
Why a crisp 600-word brief is harder than a 10-page report—and how AI changes the game.
#2633: How Live UA Map Bridges Conflict Information Gaps
A curated conflict map that trades raw speed for verified, de-duplicated event tracking — used by civilians in active warzones.
#2488: Hybrid Pipelines for Entity Resolution
Classic NLP pipelines vs. lightweight LLMs for handling Hezbollah’s half-dozen spellings.
#2437: The False Precision of GPS Coordinates
Why 8 decimal places of GPS data is mostly noise, and how tectonic plates move faster than your coordinate system updates.
#2402: Geospatial Gold Rush: Who's Hiring Satellite Sleuths?
From crop health to cargo routes, discover which industries are paying top dollar for geospatial analysis skills—and the tools they use daily.
#2395: Engineering a News Pipeline for the Edges
Building a news pipeline that goes beyond headlines to reveal underreported developments in Israel-Iran coverage—without amplifying noise.
#2371: The Graph That Thinks: From Data Dots to Human Judgment
Discover how tools like Maltego and Spiderfoot transform single data points into intricate webs of connections, bridging digital and physical inves...
#2339: When OSINT Meets the Fog of War
How open-source intelligence is reshaping—and sometimes distorting—our understanding of modern conflict.
#2297: How to Scrape Geo-Restricted Israeli Sites with MCP Tools
Learn how to bypass advanced bot-protection on Israeli websites using MCP tools, residential IPs, and tunneling techniques.
#2210: When Every Interceptor Fired Is a Data Point
When Iran launches 574 ballistic missiles, the interceptors Israel fires back tell a story—and adversaries are listening. How open-source intellige...
#2143: Simulating Geopolitics Under Asymmetric Information
A two-stage AI pipeline predicted a 4% chance the Iran-Israel ceasefire would survive a month, using Monte Carlo simulations and an LLM council.
#2031: The Jerusalem Falafel Conspiracy
Is the high density of falafel stands in Jerusalem a sign of a secret, centuries-old monopoly?
#1980: Why Ancient History Is So Violent: The "Juicy Bits" Bias
We think the ancient world was a non-stop slasher flick, but is that because the boring, peaceful parts just didn’t survive?
#1973: How Trade Necessity Invented the Alphabet
Forget Sunday school villains—Canaanites invented the alphabet and built the foundation of the modern world.
#1897: The Pentagon Pizza Index: Predicting War with Pepperoni
Forget satellites and spies—the most reliable indicator of imminent military action might be the Google Maps 'busy' meter at a Domino's.
#1891: From Phone Number to Spiderweb: The Power of OSINT Graphs
See how a single phone number can unravel a web of 200+ entities in seconds using OSINT graph tools.
#1844: How Amateurs Track Spy Satellites with Laptops
Forget Langley—these hobbyists spot classified satellites from their backyards using math, cheap cameras, and public data.
#1722: The Dark Web Is Smaller Than You Think
Forget the iceberg myth—the dark web is more like a tiny shed behind a skyscraper, with only 3 million users and 100k sites.