#exiftool

In December 2012 a journalist published one photo of John McAfee, on the run from Belize police. One photo. Inside the JPEG sat an unstripped GPS tag from an iPhone 4S — 15°39'29.4"N, 88°59'31.8"W — a poolside in Parque Nacional Río Dulce, Guatemala. McAfee tried to claim the data was faked. Two days later he co…

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is a discipline of restraint as much as discovery. Anyone can scrape a profile or run a username search, but professional investigators are judged on whether their work is scoped, lawful, repeatable, and safe — for them, for their subjects, and for the integrity of the case. This guid…