Thread by @cyb_detective

In this thread🧵, I'll talk in detail about how I should have solved this #osint video challenge.

https://twitter.com/cyb_detective/status/1465325837960589319

1. Assume that the inscription on the scoreboard is made in Russian was based on the first clue ("Worldwide OSINT Tools Map can help you").

cipher387.github.io/osintmap/ Here it's possible to find "cyb_detective_town" and find out where I live approximately.

2. Using the virtual Russian keyboard we type the text on the scoreboard:

"следующая остановка Протасово Маршрут 35"

lexilogos.com/keyboard/russi…

3. Then translate the text on the scoreboard using any online translator:

"next stop Protasovo route 35"

In Russia, there are at least 15 villages called Protasovo and bus route 35 are in hundreds of different cities.

Which particular Protasovo do we need?

4. Remember the second hint "UFO is near" and look for "Protasovo ufo"...

It turns out that there is such a thing in Shchelkovsky urban district (the same place as "cyb_detective_town").

5. Find a settlement on Yandex.Maps. Now we need to determine which direction the bus is going.

We need to choose between two options: Lestnichestvo-Protasovo and Ogudnevo-Protasovo.

yandex.ru/maps/

6. Remember hint 3 "No traffic jams. Everything goes according to plan".

This means that my bus was on time.

We look at the schedule (rasp.yandex.ru/thread/T_35_46…). The bus should be at the Lestnichestvo stop at 17:17.

Very close! And many people rushed to answer that.

7. But good investigation means checking all the options and paying attention to all the conditions of the problem.

From the stop Ogudnevo bus just leaves at 17:12 (according to the weekday schedule)

rasp.yandex.ru/thread/T_35_62…

8. Next, I had to pay attention to the speed of the bus. It had already moved away from the bus stop and accelerated a bit, but it had not yet begun to brake.

On the panoramas this point looks like this:

56.0609864,38.2504284

9. @HowToFind_bot gave a perfectly accurate answer (given that the bus was in motion)

10. @GONZOs_int, @CLMWSN_10 and @4n6Bexaminer were also perfect close, but closer to Lestnichestvo than to Ogudnevo.

@ExAndroidDev only a few kilometers wrong.

Thank you all for your participation.

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