#OSINT protips: Incredibly useful at this stage for journalists assessing the situation in UKR: Street Cameras... Thread
Today showed unmistakably what livestreaming street cameras can offer for open source investigators/Journalists. How to find them?
Search on Youtube for live camera on the filter, for "Камера"...
There are various YouTube accounts that r immediately of great value, some started streaming recently, offering #OSINT intel to investigators... Wont call them out because I dont want them to close down. But especially in ODESSA there is one of GREAT value. Hope more open up
Then there are livestream channels that act as aggregators, that collect multiple channels and discuss intel, too. There is the NEMICO network, which is pretty advanced with #OSINT resources
There are other useful #livestream such as the this one, keeps on streaming multiple channels, often with useful intel on the current affairs (perhaps also with disinfo, so watch out)
Conclusion: Livestream cameras proved today how they can be of tremendous value for #OSINT. They can help to geolocate troop movements, help geolocate smoke plumes (where sat images r missing) & provide verification options...
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The Russian-triggered Ukraine border tension involves increasingly incidents around critical infrastructures, especially around #pipelines
A short #OSINT thread on working with data on pipelines and tools that help in the process (1)
Yesterday, a UKR armed forces officer posts a video of a burning electricity plant. Filmed @ Luhansʹka Power Station in Schastia, as @bibken geolocated, we find the name of the assoc. city mentioned. Then google dork the plant. Rest is SOP #GEOSINT (2)
Another example: few days earlier showed the value of ready-at-hand geo-information on pipeline infrastructure:
Media name-drops pipeline involved in a blast, in UKR. Problem: Druzhba gas pipeline isnt involved in breakaway Luhansk. Easy factcheck with interactive maps here (3)
On July 15, 2021, one girl, three boys, a doctor, an engineer, and a bunch of other civilians get killed in an Afghan airstrike. The reconnaissance plane coordinating bombing w. AAF fighter jets spotted & IDed as a Pilatus PC-12
Our #swissarms story out, a quick #OSINT thread
Video analysis shows a range of bombing videos tweeted by @ro_modafghan. Crosshair & other details such as the flying speed, verified via MGRS calculator (legallandconverter.com/p50.html) corroborate type of reconnaissance plane used.
Pic: MOD boasting w PC12 plane (2)
Mainly Google/Twitter/FB dorks w. Persian translation helped the team. It verified early images of a missing plane, when a Taliban Badri 313 "Special Forces" soldier is IDed on other footage (3)
Helpful dorking cheatsheet here: gbhackers.com/latest-google-…
Quick #OSINT Thread: how to determine the exact location of a photographer, time, date... from an image and a few other details. A few months back I ran some training on the matter... Where is this? (1)
(2) Reverse image search of the little red sign, reveals its owner, the SBB, Swiss rail service. Check IP address via IP Lookup, which narrows it down to Zürich City... (use a web scraper to create a polygon area for location estimates) iplocation.net #OSINT
(3) By now, it should have dawned on you, which Hotel building the shadow throws onto a train station and the name of a new popuphotel. Dare a guess for the wifi name, via Wigle shows you access points... another way of confirming the location... #OSINT wigle.net
Als Pfleger impffrei arbeiten? Unglaublich! dafür wirbt eine Impf-skeptische Jobbörse(n) "impffrei(.)work"
Eine News Analyse zeigt: nicht nur das hier unzweifelhaft auf #Disinformation verwiesen wird, sondern auch Indizien gefunden werden von wem sie stammen könnte (1) Thread:
Auf Twitter Aktiv wieder seit Nov 21, Impffrei(.)work vermittelt ungeimpfte auch in Pflege-jobs, auch in der #Schweiz. Platform Linktr zeigt impffreiwork hat min. 7 Ersatzdomains, auch auf via Tor/Darkweb. Eine Testspende zeigt ImpffreiWork ist in Italien registriert (2)
Viel weiteres ist über die organisation hinter ImpffreiWork nicht bekannt. #Bitcoin Analyse einer Spenderziel Adresse zeigt: Ein paar Kleinbeträge sind überwiese worden. Anonymous hatte sich impffrei.work schon angenommen... (3)
Thread: Biden threatens to end #NordStream2. Germany's chancellor dares not to object. The US has had objections since 2018. So did Ukraine's Ex-President (2014-2019) saying “lifting of sanctions against Russia's Nord Stream 2 is an alarming signal to the Ukrainian government”...
...👀 on Nord Stream 2 AG headquartered in Zug, 🇨🇭, plays now an integral role. For the German part of the pipeline, the company founded a new subsidiary, the "Gas for Europe GmbH", only after the German regulator demanded it. We see the entrance on Google images, in 2018...
In 2021, Swiss political parties (all but one) said the country should distance itself from Nord Stream 2, meaning, no Gas to🇨🇭. Zug, a tax haven with its Nord Stream 2 AG, could mean (as seen before) reputational loss for the whole country & relationship issues with the US...
Hours of video footage to go thru for #OSINT project? Lil thread on speedy analysis tools
Imaging: you analyze riots of ydays Covid protests in Viennas #w1812. Rioters attacked police. Searching YTube for footage >20 min recorded livestream of “LIVE: Demo in Wien”, 29k views (0)
(2) We download the video via ur Youtube downloader of choice (list below). Our video is nearly 3 hours long, worth checking the tool MSS #VideoIndexer Azur Media Analyser for Media @Video_Indexer. Open free account. Upload hour long-footage free videoindexer.ai/media/library
(3) MS #VideoIndexer packs a punch: search ppl in video, OCRing & item recog. & trace ppl paths. Detect, group & recog ppl, perfect for cross-refcing of right extremism joining corona demos. The label tag "law Enforcement" reveals scene of barrier breaking