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The biggest threat in OSINT isn’t lack of data. It’s ego. The moment you think you understand the dataset, you stop learning from it. The moment you think you can’t be surprised, you stop being useful. Black Swans don’t hide, they just look irrelevant until they change everything. Your dashboard doesn’t need more data. It needs more doubt.

Explore the future of OSINT with AI as we delve into the next two decades of advancements. Discover how OSINT and AI will redefine tradecraft.

Walk through an old temple in Luxor or Karnak, and you’re surrounded by symbols that once carried life-and-death meaning. Hieroglyphics...

A field rant about shortcuts, ego, and other creative ways to waste everyone’s time Let’s just say the quiet part out loud: most of...

This isn’t a rant against AI. I use it daily, ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini. They’re in my workflow like everyone else’s. But the tradecraft is slipping. Analysts are skipping the hard parts. They’re trusting GenAI to do the heavy cognitive lifting, and it’s changing how we operate at a foundational level.

Often I get the question: Hey Nico, do you know any good geolocation or mapping sources that are not so well known? Mapping tools are...

Finding valuable information within OSINT investigations often requires looking beyond the surface. Social media, blogs, and forums are...

Image by Mary Rabun Most true ‘OSINTians’ are members of a small group who go public. They go public on their skills, knowledge and...

OSINT is about focusing on possibilities. But sometimes we get stuck or things we planned simply didn’t work as planned. We all know when...

To be clear, online OSINT investigations can cause trauma, severe trauma. This is something that people rarely talk about and it’s highly...

Often i get asked if i’ve got some pointers and tools for OPSEC during online investigations. My primary answer would be first: I can’t...

Extracting relevant information from large blobs of text, such as text files, PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, JSON files, can be a...

In this second blog in the Cryptography & OSINT series we are going to take a closer look at world of emojis

Cryptography & OSINT - The fundamentals

Using audio for open-source intelligence analysis Introduction Open-source intelligence analysis often heavily relies on video analysis....