INTELLIGENCE JOURNAL
Field notes from the frontline
Weekly essays on OSINT tradecraft, tooling and analysis.
GUIDEA pragmatic OPSEC checklist for analysts
Twenty-two habits that keep your investigations — and your identity — out of the target's reach.
8 minRead
WORKFLOWPivoting from an email address to a full persona
A reproducible workflow that turns a single email into a defensible identity picture — with citations.
10 minRead
METHODOLOGYUnderstanding EXIF forensics (without overclaiming)
EXIF is useful, brittle, and routinely oversold. A practical guide to what it can and can't prove.
7 minRead
FIELD NOTESDark-web crawling without getting burned
Practical patterns for onion-service enumeration, freshness scoring, and staying inside your own policy.
11 minRead
AUTOMATIONAutomating recon with SpiderFoot + a small language model
A hands-on recipe for wiring SpiderFoot output into a locally-hosted LLM for triage, not conclusions.
9 minRead