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Stoicism

What do you think of this pet theory of mine: The ability to take offence is actually a personal weakness; even more so where there is even a slightly …

RSS Saver

When I was reviewing OSINT tools from the Intel Techniques↗ course, I wondered if there is a better way to keep track of what’s going on with a specific …

How to Use Usenet for Research and OSINT Investigations

OSINT, especially the SOCMINT (Social Media Intelligence) specialty, is often focused on widely used social media platforms like Twitter/X, Facebook, etc. …

Grok Analysis

Earlier today, Elon Musk wrote: (Original Link)↗ So I wondered, would this work with Geolocation? I live in a city with a fair about of tourist attractions and …

My First (and only) Hack

When I say “hack,” I’m referring to something that was potentially illegal by today’s standards, but this was nearly 30 years ago, and …

Metadata

My first job in IT was at a small company, “A,” that researched telephone data for a very large company, “B.” You see, company …

This Old Laptop

My backup laptop is a Teclast F5. It has an 11.6″ touchscreen display, a Celeron N4100 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and a soldered 128GB SSD (not NVMe). I’ve owned …

Working with Torsocks

Torsocks acts as a network wrapper around linux applications. This allows them to work on the Tor network where that might not normally be possible. If the …

Email2.0

For those who may not know, email is not owned by any one company. There are no copyrights or patents associated with email itself. It’s an open standard …

Use Tor Without Tor Browser

This post originally came from a reply that I made to a question that was asked on the r/tor subreddit. So, you want to run the tor service on in Linux but not …

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