8 types of government open databases that many countries have and that will be useful to investigate.
Each link is just an example. In the last tweet I will tell how to find government resources for a particular country.
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Business Registries
On these sites you can find out by person's name the companies that belong to him, addresses, phone numbers, occupation, etc (data set varies by country).
Such maps show the boundaries of the land plot, information about its owners (individual, legal entity, state) and cadastral number (for which you can find additional information about target in other sources).
On such sites, you can find records of various situations in a person's life that required court intervention (criminal offenses, administrative violations, financial disputes, etc.).
Professional license databases may contain detailed information about a person's education and work experience. And in some cases there are photos and contact information.
Sometimes voting data is published (or is accidentally leaked). It contains person's full name, date of birth, and address (or the address of the nearest polling station)
Investigators sometimes have to deal with images of documents (passports, driver's licenses). This type of services check their authenticity (and sometimes provide extra information).
All of the links above are just examples, that will help you find your personal additional sources of information. More than 600 links to #osint resources specific to different countries can be found here:
Let's start with the easiest and fastest option. Use NAMINT from @seint_pl.
It will generate possible name variants and links to search for them in various search engines (+ possible emails and document search + social media accounts)
If the options suggested by NAMINT do not bring results (or your goal is to collect the MAXIMUM info), then you need a list of all possible nicknames based on the first and last name.
Here's a guide on how to do it from @Sox0j:
- reverse images search engines and advanced search operators;
- photo processing tools for a more successful search;
- face photo search;
- automation.
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The tool I recommend you start your search with is Yandex Images.
Not only does it search very well for similar images, but it also recognizes the text on them and identifies the location if it is an image of a famous landmark.
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Until recently, Yandex Images allowed you to enter search operators directly, but now this no longer works. But you can add them to the URL parameters.
For example, to search only on facebook, add &text=site%3Afacebook.com to the link
- how to search for cameras (including vulnerable cameras)
- how to save streams from cameras
- how to analyze video
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You can search for cameras using Google Custom Search Engine, which brings together the ten largest aggregators of camera streams (Webcamtaxi, Insecam, Geocam etc).