Sandboxing OSINT Tooling: Why Your Collection Environment Is Probably Phoning Home
Your OSINT collection environment may be exposing your operations through the tools you trust most. Here's how to sandbox properly.
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Behavioral Fingerprinting in OSINT Collection: When Your Scraper's Habits Betray Your Operation
Your OSINT scrapers leave behavioral fingerprints that target platforms can detect. Here's how to identify and randomize those patterns before they burn your collection infrastructure.
T. HoltAttribution Confidence Scoring: Why Your Threat Intel Is Lying About How Sure It Is
Learn how to build quantified confidence scoring into threat attribution pipelines so analysts stop mistaking 'probably' for 'definitely' in intelligence reporting.
T. HoltTemporal Analysis in OSINT: Why the Timestamp on That Photo Is Lying to You
Metadata timestamps in OSINT are unreliable by default. Learn how to verify source timing, detect manipulation, and build pipelines that don't trust clock data.
T. HoltOperational Deduplication in Intelligence Pipelines: When You're Paying to Process the Same Threat Twice
Duplicate threat data silently inflates your pipeline costs and distorts analyst judgment. Here's how to build deduplication that actually works for intel ops.
T. HoltHomoglyph Attacks and Unicode Spoofing in Intelligence Tooling: When Your Eyes Lie to Your Pipeline
Homoglyph attacks exploit Unicode lookalike characters to compromise intelligence pipelines, repositories, and analyst workflows. Here's how they work and how to stop them.
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