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)