The OSINT Newsletter - Issue #113
Turning Physical Media into an OSINT Archive Powered by AI
👋 Welcome to the 113th issue of The OSINT Newsletter. This issue contains OSINT news, community posts, tactics, techniques, and tools to help you become a better investigator. My goal with this newsletter is to help promote the OSINT industry, develop better investigators, and raise awareness of ethical use cases for open source intelligence.
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OSINT News
📰 How to Build an AI Second Brain With Claude and Obsidian That Gets Smarter Every Day
A guide to connecting Claude to Obsidian so it can read, organize, and remember your notes across sessions, creating an AI-powered personal knowledge base that improves over time.
🎩 H/T: Yarchi
📰 How I Track Ships in the Strait of Hormuz
A beginner-friendly OSINT tutorial walking through how to track and identify ships in the Strait of Hormuz using free tools like MarineTraffic, VesselFinder, Equasis, and Copernicus satellite imagery, starting from a news report about vessel congestion near Bandar Abbas.
🎩 H/T: Benjamin Strick
📰 How to Use AI to Help Find Civilian Harm
Bellingcat developed a machine learning model to automatically rank Telegram posts by their likelihood of containing civilian harm, dramatically cutting the time researchers spent searching through war reporting content so they could focus on verification instead.
🎩 H/T: Miguel Ramalho
OSINT Tools
🔎 DiscordUtils
A series of useful tools you can use in your OSINT investigations to interrogate Discord servers and users.
🔎 Email Crawl
Extract emails intelligently at scale for your OSINT investigations including validation, username extraction, and more.
🎩 H/T: D4rk_Intel
🔎 XResolver
A collection of tools you can use to investigate users or activity on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. Some of the tools seem to be down but they open your mind to possible data points that you can collect.
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⚡ Turning Physical Media into an OSINT Archive Powered by AI
In this issue, I’ll explain a few methods you can turn physical media into an OSINT archive and how you can leverage tools like Obsidian and Qwen to build a powerful engine on top of it.
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