#OSINTirl #OSINT4Good #Podcast 3:30-4:30 EST Today Join @kirbstr.bsky.social , & me tonight to discuss 20 Years of the Adam Walsh Act: Protecting Children in a Digital Age, LinkedInLive, Twitch- www.twitch.tv/osintirl, & YouTube- www.youtube.com/@osintirl (image prompted through Proton Lumo)
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#OSINTirl #NVEs #Extremism #OSINT 3:30-4:30 EST Today Come join @kirbstr.bsky.social & me to discuss "Killers Without a Cause?: OSINT & the 2025-2026 Wave of Nihilistic Violent Extremism on LinkedIn, Twitch- www.twitch.tv/osintirl, & YouTube- www.youtube.com/@osintirl (image via Kagi Assistant)
#OSINTirl Come join @kirbstr.bsky.social & me next Wed to discuss Op SpecTOR, a 2023 multinational operation targeting darknet drug trafficking, and how it applies to OSINT-3:30-4:30 EST For prior episodes- www.youtube.com/@osintirl/st... www.twitch.tv/osintirl www.linkedin.com/events/deepf...
🚨 OSINTirl is Live. 🚨 We break down the: Digital Clues That Exposed a Seville Predator Bear with us, we are trying to find the best possible timing for us both (crazy time zone differences!) www.youtube.com/@osintirl www.twitch.tv/osintirl www.linkedin.com/in/kirbyp/
#OSINTirl going live - @cybersalukis.bsky.social has some thoughts about the Fediverse youtube.com/@osintirl/st... twitch.tv/osintirl linkedin.com/in/kirbyp
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OSINT IRL = Open Source Intelligence you can actually use. Practical OSINT, investigations, digital safety, and verification—made simple for journalists, investigators, analysts, marketers, and everyd...
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Going live! Inside the 2026 Social Media Lawsuits Changing Everything #OSINTirl www.twitch.tv/osintirl www.youtube.com/@osintirl www.linkedin.com/in/kirbyp/
#Deepfakes #AI an article from @kirbstr.bsky.social on LinkedIn The End of "Seeing is Believing" "When political leaders pass off AI-generated images as truth, they aren't just lying about a specific event; they are sabotaging the very methodology of truth-seeking." www.linkedin.com/pulse/end-se...
The End of "Seeing is Believing"
As an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) investigator, my job used to be about finding the needle in the haystack, such as locating a specific user in a Twitter-crowd or verifying a Snapchat image. But ...
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I mentioned that I would give an explanation on how my Friend Overlap Tool GPT worked and how to use it. plessas.net/blog/2026/4/7/how-friend-overlap-analysis-reveals-hidden-accounts-alternate-personas-and-social-graph-secrets
How Friend Overlap Analysis Reveals Hidden Accounts, Alternate Personas, and Social Graph Secrets — Plessas Experts Network
In the world of open-source intelligence, the most powerful insights rarely come from what is explicitly visible. Instead, they emerge from patterns, connections, overlaps, and relationships that most...
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#OSINTirl will be live on Facebook, Twitch, YouTube and LinkedIn today at 11am Eastern. This is NOT an April Fools' Day joke, but we will be covering why today is the most annoying day on the internet. Join us and send in some examples! www.twitch.tv/osintirl www.youtube.com/@osintirl
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OSINT in real life---Takeaways from Real Life Examples of OSINT Tactics and Methodologies
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A company is secretly entering Zoom meetings, scraping the call, and then turning those meetings into AI-generated, public podcasts. A really wild business when many people are having sensitive conversations, including about ICE Watch more here and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=79SI...
We are live now on Twitch! #OSINTirl Dark Curiousity: Weird stuff on the dark web www.twitch.tv/osintirl @cybersalukis.bsky.social
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OSINT in real life---Takeaways from Real Life Examples of OSINT Tactics and Methodologies
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Plessas Experts Network Inc. Applied Investigations OSINT Tool Evaluations, Frameworks & Workflows Start Date: April 1 Duration: 12 Weeks Cohort Cap: 10 Participants Enrollment is limited and will close when 10 seats are filled. with @kirbstr.bsky.social l plessas.mykajabi.com/offers/nN5vp...
Tonight, at 7pm eastern, I will go over ways to hash evidence and checking those hashes. Hint: you don't need any special software. #OSINTirl Watch on Twitch tonight: www.twitch.tv/osintirl Or on Youtube tomorrow: www.youtube.com/@osintirl
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OSINT in real life---Takeaways from Real Life Examples of OSINT Tactics and Methodologies
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Fascinating work. I don't have the expertise to double check it, but the whole thing is available on GitHub so that others could. randallscott25-star.github.io/epstein-fore...
N19 — I Audited $2.1 Billion in Epstein Financial Records
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did you know you can fit every planet in the solar system in between Earth and the Moon? I can't tho, I'm busy
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#Tools #Vetting #OSINT Happening Today February 26, 2026 OSINTirl @1900 EST Join Kirby and me tonight on Twitch OSINTirl Episode 23, we'll discuss Tool Vetting. 7PM EST Every Wed www.twitch.tv/osintirl Past episodes available on YouTube- www.youtube.com/@osintirl w/ @kirbstr.bsky.social
#Tools #Vetting #OSINT Happening Today February 26, 2026 OSINTirl @1900 EST Join Kirby and me tonight on Twitch OSINTirl Episode 23, we'll discuss Tool Vetting. 7PM EST Every Wed www.twitch.tv/osintirl Past episodes available on YouTube- www.youtube.com/@osintirl w/ @kirbstr.bsky.social
The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
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How did journalists find the man behind the biggest deepfake porn site in the world? 404 Media’s @samleecole.bsky.social reveals how David Do, a pharmacist, was confronted at his Toronto home in her new podcast Understood: Deepfake Porn Empire on CBC. Listen now: open.spotify.com/show/69ttdE2...
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
#AudioOSINT #AcousticOSINT #OSINTirl #OSINT Feb 4 OSINTirl @1900 EST Join @kirbstr.bsky.social & me on Twitch for OSINTirl Episode 20 Audio & Acoustic OSINT from adversarial, OPSEC, & investigative perspectives. www.twitch.tv/osintirl Past episodes on YouTube- www.youtube.com/@osintirl
“If you see something, shovel something.” I shoveled out crosswalks, instead of complaining. If your neighborhood is also stuck in “snowcrete,” please take the #IceBreakUpChallenge: clear a sidewalk, post a photo. Use social media to incent civic behavior. If you like this idea, pass it on. 🧊💪 🇺🇸
For over 30 years EFF's EFFector newsletter has chronicled the rise of the digital rights movement. Check out our archives going back all the way to 1990: www.eff.org/effector
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🚨 #OSINT warning: Typosquatters on whatsmyname[.]* domains are copying WhatsMyName data without attribution & hiding their identities. Be careful where you run sensitive investigations. Official repo: github.com/WebBreacher/... and main site: whatsmyname.app
#OSINTirl #OSINT #ROBLOX #Twitch OSINTIrl 15 ROBLOX with Kirby Plessas Today at 7 PM, 1900, EST Join Us on Twitch, twitch.tv/osintirl Can't make it? recording on www.youtube.com/@osintirl Discussion on Roblox Investigations in OSINTirl Safety and Some Critiques on Age-Appropriate Design.