From the course: Deep Dive into Open-Source Intelligence
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Using social media sites for OSINT
From the course: Deep Dive into Open-Source Intelligence
Using social media sites for OSINT
- [Instructor] Social networking sites are littered with some of the most valuable OSINT information on the internet. Finding a target or employee for an organization that's active on social media is like looking through a one-way mirror at your target. Even those individuals who are not on modern popular social media sites today are likely to have some form of footprint on older social media platforms such as MySpace. Because each social media site is used differently and privacy settings may be higher or lower person by person, the interaction available for your OSINT investigation will differ case by case. Regardless of the social media platform, you'll typically see a few categories of social media content that may be of use to you, the author's post or comment, a reply from the author or friend, social interactions, such as a like or connection, video or images, and metadata, such as a timestamp. The main commonality…
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