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f.) Crypto OSINT – NFTs
There are some basic research methods for an NFT. This will avoid the deeper questions of what is an NFT. So for now we’ll use the gross oversimplification of describing an NFT as a picture with a unique ID that people buy and sell with cryptocurrency. Let’s get started. For the sake of this example,…
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Examine Emails (part 2 – links, images in email’s html)
Your email services will sometimes disable hyperlinks and/or block images in the email body content (thereby blocking images from downloading). And you might see this: Or this: You can look at the raw source code to find out more. But first, you need to understand what you are looking at in the HTML How to…
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Public Data in Criminal Justice Records
The primary resources are: People Search Websites: PSWs were discussed previously, they are a great first step when researching someone as they will identify where the persons lives now and past addresses. After you obtain this information look up the counties for each address and then you can search if the person was involved in…
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Pastebin is being archived?: how to search pastebin in the internet archive
This post will explain the background and show you how to search pastebin in the Internet Archive Apparently the Internet Archive’s collections feature (which is 2 years old now) has created a collection for pastebin.com and it is keyword-searchable. What is the Internet Archive’s “Collections” feature? The collections feature in general is described as follows…
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Genealogy – Social Security Index
The Social Security Death Index (SSDI) is an official list of American’s whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. The SSDI is available online (though only included deaths from 1965 to 2013) and can be accessed for free at FamilySearch.org, GenealogyBank.com, and Ancestry.com. See the URLs below: The SSDI is a public database…
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Verify college degrees, enrollments or dropouts
You can verify if someone attended a university in the U.S. by calling the school to request a student’s “directory information” or by submitting a request through studentclearinghouse.org (the topic of this post) Home Be aware that this tool will cost you roughly $30 if you find records. It generally does not charge if nothing…
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Automate Searching Websites For Emails, Social Media, Crypto, and Phone Numbers
I think this is a really cool way to use Python to search websites (including source code) for email addresses and more. Absolutely no python knowledge needed
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Search for Photos in Internet Archive
Use rootabout.com to find images in the Internet Archive and all sorts of other information.
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Searching Pastebin: 6 March 2024 Update
Latest News about What to Search For in Pastebin and What Pastebin Searching Tools to Use
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