Episode 41: Special Guest Ines Narciso, video search tool Peteyvid, estimating crowd sizes, and more on facial recognition (even for dogs)

Special Guest


Inês Narciso (@IWN_LX) – Ines worked in the Portuguese
Intelligence Service for 12 years. She started up doing OSINT in
2008 and later became an OSINT and online undercover operations
project manager. In 2019, she joined Iscte Iul a Lisbon
University where she teaches Digital Methods and conducts
research on disinformation. Since then, she’s also built a
company that uses OSINT to find people’s ancestors and build
family trees. In her spare time, she also helps pro bono fellow
journalists in Portugal and abroad in their investigations and
women who have been a victim of revenge porn or intimate image
abuse.


People in this Episode


Micah Hoffman (@webbreacher)

Nico (@DutchOSINTGuy)

Matthias Wilson (@mwosint)

Nixintel

Lorand Bodo

Sector035

Ritu Gill (@OSINTTechniques)



Links to what we discussed


Protecting personal privacy against unauthorized deep
learning models: https://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/

Search for videos across 60 platforms:
https://www.peteyvid.com/

Estimate the size of a crowd with this tool:
https://www.mapchecking.com/

Twitter thread about the video conferencing platform Zoom:
https://twitter.com/securitytrails/status/1284187387103457282

Great verification case study in French:
https://ledesk.ma/desintox/le-bonimenteur-de-habanos-sa-encore-frappe-il-sest-paye-un-panama-paper/

Twitter search tricks:
https://www.labnol.org/internet/twitter-search-tricks/13693/

Improved face detection software that even works on animals:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/digikams-improved-face-detection-for-photos-even-works-on-animals

Blog that has started dropping “0Days” with regards to the
TOR project:
https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/888-Tor-0day-Stopping-Tor-Connections.html

New Telegram update:
https://telegram.org/blog/profile-videos-people-nearby-and-more

Upcoming virtual OSINT Symposium between 10 and 13 October:
https://www.osintsymposium.com/event-details/australian-osint-symposium-1



Self Promotion


Learn more about Ines’s work: https://medialab.iscte-iul.pt/
(in Portuguese with some English articles)

The Open Source Intelligence Skills-building Conference
(October 2020): https://www.osmosiscon.com/

German Open Source Intelligence Conference (GOCON):
https://www.gosintcon.de/ – if you have any questions, reach out
to Matthias (@mwosint)