In this blog I’ve often tried to emphasise how important it is to grasp the basic principles of investigation and learn how to apply the right method to a problem instead of just relying on a few tools to do…
Tag: Quiztime
Quiztime 25th August 2019 – Military Vehicles & Geolocation
This Sunday we were treated to an extra Quiztime image location challenge which involved an unidentified military vehicle. Doxsor posted this image and asked where this military vehicle was headed to, and which barracks was closest to the location: …
Two Different Approaches To Photo-Geolocation
Holidays and work commitments mean that I haven’t had much time to tackle the daily Quiztime challenges recently, but participants in two of this week’s challenges from Sector035 and Fiete Stegers highlighted a couple of different approaches to photo geolocation…
Quiztime 16th July – Start Big, Get Small – How To Be An OSINT Sherlock
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” Sherlock Holmes I’m not usually a big fan of Sherlock Holmes. Like many other fictional detectives, I don’t think he’s a particularly effective investigator.…
Quiztime 5th July – Lifeboats and Fast Reverse Image Searching
Rescue boats are a common theme in this week’s Quiztime. On Tuesday Lars Wienand asked us to locate a rescue boat and today Philipp Dudek asks another Lifeboat related question. This was quite a fun quiz to solve but after…
Quiztime 28th June 2019 – Planespotting On The Heide
When I was a child I spent a lot of time living around various military establishments in Germany. In the 1980s the north German plain was packed with NATO soldiers ready to fight the Russians in case they ever rolled…
Tell, Explain, Describe… Asking The Right Questions To Get The Right Answers – Quiztime 25th June 2019
In the short time that I have been blogging, many of the OSINT tools I’ve referred to have already become obsolete or no longer exist. Facebook removed Graph Search, Twitter removed geotagged Tweets, IntelTechniques lost its tools, and Pipl went…
Quiztime 5th June 2019 – Movies, CGI, and Trainspotting
It’s been a busy time and I didn’t get much chance to do the daily Quiztime challenge last week, but I did really enjoy the most recent quiz posted by Tilman Wagner. It was the first video based Quiztime I’ve…
Using Gap Analysis To Keep OSINT Investigations On Track
With any kind of OSINT investigation it’s easy to gather huge amounts of data in a very short amount of time, but what do you do with it all? There are thousands of tools you can use to scrape information…
Quiztime 24th May 2019 – Live OSINT gathering for the #ClimateStrike
Today’s Quiztime was run by Fiete Stegers once again. It posed a very different kind of OSINT challenge because it involved gathering information in live-time from very volatile sources. On one hand this meant it was possible to get a…