#ukraine-war-osint

VK still hands over more about its users than Facebook, X, or LinkedIn ever did. That hasn't really changed since 2014, despite a decade of half-hearted "privacy improvements." If a subject of your investigation speaks Russian — drafted into a unit near Donetsk, posting selfies from Mariupol, or running a fake person…

Telegram is not a messenger. It is the open graph of every conflict, every leak, and every crime market that doesn't want to live on the open web — and most of it is publicly readable if you know where to point the camera. That is why SOCMINT on Telegram stopped being a niche skill around 2022 and became table stakes…