OSHIT: Seven Deadly Sins of Bad Open Source Research, and other Selected Articles: Putin's deputy defense minister arrested for 'high treason': reports
Michael Novakhov's favorite articles on Inoreader OSHIT: Seven Deadly Sins of Bad Open Source Research posted at 20:10:29 UTC (updated on Thu Apr 25, 2024 21:11) by Tristan Lee via bellingcat When news breaks and the internet is aflutter with activity and speculation, many turn to open source accounts and experts to make sense of events. This is truly a sign that open source research — using resources like satellite images to flight tracking websites and footage recorded on the ground — is seen as credible and is increasingly sought after. It’s free, publicly available and anybody can do it. But such success comes with drawbacks. In monitoring events from Iran and Ukraine , this surge in credibility allows the term ‘OSINT’ to be easily abused, either knowingly or unknowingly, by users who don’t actually follow the best practice of open source research methods. In fact, since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023, there has been a spike in verified ‘OSINT’ Twitte
