Three issues, three completely different corners of the OSINT world collide in this episode. Jake Creps opens with the latest OSINT news, including AI-powered note-taking with Claude and Obsidian, tracking ships through the Strait of Hormuz, and Bellingcat’s machine learning approach to surfacing civilian harm reports. From there he covers three new tools for investigating Discord servers, crawling emails at scale, and digging into Xbox Live and PlayStation Network activity, before closing out with the paid deep dive: 🔒 turning a physical media library into a searchable AI archive using Obsidian and Qwen.
The episode also covers EyeDex, an open directory search engine that indexes publicly exposed files, archives, and datasets scattered across the internet. Jake breaks down keyword and file-extension searches, directory pivoting, date sorting, and infrastructure discovery, plus the operational security habits every investigator should follow when poking around exposed servers.
Rounding things out, Jake puts you in the boardroom to investigate a company from the ground up: mapping directors, tracing subsidiaries and parent companies, and cross-referencing filings to spot patterns, covering where to find the paper trail and the pivot points that take you from a company to the people and places behind it.
🔒 Highlights from this episode:
📰 AI-powered second brains, ship tracking, and Bellingcat’s ML for civilian harm detection
🔎 New tools for Discord, email crawling, and console investigations
📚 Turning a physical media library into a searchable AI archive with Obsidian and Qwen
🗂️ Searching the internet’s exposed open directories with EyeDex
🏢 Uncovering who really runs a company and where the money flows
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