#reverse-image-search

Half the internet doesn't speak your language, doesn't index in Google, and doesn't care about your VPN. That half lives behind the Great Firewall — and if your investigation touches Huawei, PLA contractors, semiconductor supply chains, influence operations, or the overseas Chinese diaspora, ignoring it isn't a metho…

A clean Instagram profile is a confession in pictures. The owner just doesn't know it yet. Investigators don't read Instagram the way users do. The same photo of a coffee — the user is showing their morning. The investigator reads the wallpaper behind the mug, the brand of the laptop, the timestamp on the post, the c…

Facebook is still the largest, deepest, and most embarrassing public archive of human behavior ever assembled. It's also the platform OSINT operators keep being told is "dead." Both things are true at the same time. What died in 2019 was Graph Search — Facebook's natural-language query engine that let investigators a…