#sock-puppet

Discord stopped being "just a gamer chat" a long time ago. A 22-year-old airman leaked classified Pentagon documents on a server called Thug Shaker Central. The 2017 Charlottesville rally was planned over Discord servers. A scraper called Spy.pet sold over 4 billion messages from 620 million users for $5 a query before…

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…