Re:Why Did Journalists Help the Justice Department Identify ...
by orwin on Friday April 14, 2023 @08:50PM
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Bellingcat founder publicized OSINT tools and techniques that are used by citizens to reports/find out what's happening in protests. Those tools are used in France to report on the action of a "liberal" government and were used in Israel to report on the action of the closest US ally.
Also, Bellingcat brought a lot of people into OSINT and ridiculed Russia multiple times (including the one time they modified the wikipedia page of a USSR airplane to fit their narrative on MH17). The thing is, they do not only write articles, they publish their data and methodology, and encourage you to try yourself. It's not just consummer thinking "ahah, Russia Opsec is shit", it's engineers and people interested in OSINT finding out how incompetent Russia is.
The one thing i don't like about Bellingcat is that they don't write when they fail to find something. I understand that for journalists, its bad to report on nothing, but people like me learn more wth failure than with success. But the Osint community is big and i'm not a Bellingcat contributor anymore, i found better shoes (and in my language).
Also, Bellingcat brought a lot of people into OSINT and ridiculed Russia multiple times (including the one time they modified the wikipedia page of a USSR airplane to fit their narrative on MH17). The thing is, they do not only write articles, they publish their data and methodology, and encourage you to try yourself. It's not just consummer thinking "ahah, Russia Opsec is shit", it's engineers and people interested in OSINT finding out how incompetent Russia is.
The one thing i don't like about Bellingcat is that they don't write when they fail to find something. I understand that for journalists, its bad to report on nothing, but people like me learn more wth failure than with success. But the Osint community is big and i'm not a Bellingcat contributor anymore, i found better shoes (and in my language).