On February 17 2021 a large oil slick reached Israeli beaches with no clear origin. The spill affected over 90% of Israel coasts and was by all means an ecological disaster which would take years to fully recover from. Investigations where immediately launched, rumours begun spreading, and wrong allegations where made. Then, three weeks after […]
C-SAR Eye – Sentinel-1 data analysis tool
Powered by the impressive Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform, C-SAR Eye (link to the tool) tries to make Sentinel-1 satellites data analysis easier by focusing on changes in the captured C-SAR radar data. The tool allows users to customise a time frame for the data to be analysed and setup thresholds so to isolate changes […]
Enhance Corporate Investigations by Web Scrap...
Editor’s Note: this post presumes that the reader has at least a passing knowledge of the programming languages Python and HTML. If this does not apply to you, sorry, you may not enjoy reading this. Consider looking at the crash courses on Python and HTML at Python For Beginners and Beginners’ Guide to HTML. This […]
Deep Net, Open Net, and the Dark Net
One can easily write at length to describe the differences between the deep net, dark net, and the open net, but they can also be summed up simply as follows. OPEN NET The open net is what you would call the “regular” internet. If there is a phrase on the open net , such as […]
Corporate Research on the Deep Web
Why the “Deep Web” is Important for Corporate Research When you try to research a company you likely will first see the information that the company itself puts out into the Internet, like its website, social media, or press statements. With this information it is hard to know what you can trust. In addition, relevant […]
OPEN SOURCE WARFARE – The stark reality of DI
Been thinking about if to write this article for a long time, pondering the benefits versus the potential costs of what I’m about to write. Everything that will be illustrated here is available in the public domain and most of it has been so for well over a decade now. Been battled on this as […]
Socioeconomics and OSINT – A Working Example
Behind the Economics: Social Uprisings On 9 June 2020 hundreds of protestors in Seattle, Washington had filled the Seattle City Hall main entrance, setting up a community microphone in the dim lights as people, each representing a unique voice and concern, nervously milled the hall, now in their third week of protesting. As the clock […]
Genesis of coronavirus related Fake News
On March 23 the Jerusalem Post published an article titled : “Israeli doctor in Italy: We no longer help those over 60” The whole article is based on the report from an Israeli M.D. Gai Peleg working in Parma (Northern Italy). Here the portion of the article relevant to the headline “Peleg said that, from […]
SENTINEL-1 and the Seas of Japan
While checking for Patriot activity in South Korea I stumbled on the interesting increase of interferences in the seas surrounding Japan. This pushed me to investigate a little further to isolate the potential sources for them. Hyūga class helicopter destroyers The vessels (2) which became operational in the late first decade of 2000 saw the […]
SENTINEL-1 and The Mediterranean Sea
A research into radar caused interferences over the Mediterranean Sea as revealed by SENTINEL-1 C-SAR data.