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OSINT at Home - Tutorials on Digital Research, Verification and Open Source Investigations

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Overview

Explore a comprehensive tutorial series on digital research, verification, and open source investigations with OSINT At Home. Learn essential techniques for finding digital breadcrumbs and conducting open source intelligence (OSINT) investigations from the comfort of your home. Discover methods to answer who, what, where, and when questions using publicly available information. Suitable for beginners and experienced digital investigators alike, the series covers topics such as social media content verification, image reverse search, geolocation, chronolocation, and identifying leads from simple techniques. Benefit from free, accessible content designed for newsrooms, NGOs, human rights organizations, journalists, law enforcement, and intelligence analysts. Master skills to verify information, combat misinformation, and enhance your investigative abilities across various fields. Follow along with 13 detailed tutorials covering advanced search operators, EXIF data analysis, satellite imagery techniques, and more, led by expert Benjamin Strick.

Syllabus

OSINT At Home #1 - Starting an investigation with image reverse search.
OSINT At Home #2 - Five ways to find EXIF/metadata in a photo or video.
OSINT At Home #3 – Advanced Search Operators with Translate.
OSINT At Home #4 – Identify a location from a photo or video (geolocation).
OSINT At Home #5 – Creating a panorama from a video for geolocation.
OSINT At Home #6 – Find when an image was taken with satellite imagery.
OSINT At Home #7 – How to create a satellite image time lapse.
OSINT At Home #8 – Calculate time using shadows in a photo or video.
FINDING: MODI – Find where & when a photo was taken (geolocation & chronolocation).
OSINT At Home #9 – My Top 4 Free Satellite Imagery Sources.
OSINT At Home #11 – Six street view applications to explore the world.
OSINT At Home #12 – How to pull text from an image and use it in search.
OSINT At Home #13 – Using mountains to geolocate a photo or video.

Taught by

Bendobrown

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  • Ben makes great videos, I have really have learned a lot from him. Thank you so much. I have viewed some of these videos before and look forward to follow him in the future. I have been studying OSINT for about 2 years and the videos have help to keep my attention.

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