Methodology & Standards
How investigations are built, documented, and defended. Critical analysis of tools, frameworks, and the evidentiary principles that separate rigorous OSINT from sophisticated-looking guesswork.
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The Problem In October 2024, Sector035 identified a structural fault in modern OSINT practice: investigators are building findings on platforms they cannot see inside, audit, or reproduce. He called them "black box (CL)OSINT tools," and the name sticks. In legitimate OSINT, the investigator controls source selection, d…