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Why AI Makes OPSEC More Important Than Ever

AI scrapes, indexes, and infers. If your investigative footprint is sloppy, AI-enhanced adversaries can detect your patterns quickly.

Modern OPSEC must consider:

🚩Predictability

🚩Typing patterns

🚩Browser signals

🚩Time zone leakage

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Kirbstr Dec 5

Downloading videos on Threads (or wherever)

https://plessas.net/blog/2025/12/5/osint-fieldcraft-for-threads-beginner-safe-video-extraction

OSINT Fieldcraft for Threads: Beginner Video Extraction — Plessas Experts Network

This beginner-friendly OSINT guide explains how to safely download and preserve videos from Threads.net using OPSEC-conscious methods. You’ll learn multiple techniques—from simple screen recording to browser developer tools and advanced stream capture—along with troubleshooting tips for people who c

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Kirbstr Feb 6, 2025

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Kirbstr Jun 19, 2024

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Kirbstr Jun 11, 2024

#OSINT
https://plessas.net/blog/2024/6/11/a-budding-criminologists-perspectives-on-osint

A Budding Criminologist’s Perspectives On OSINT — Plessas Experts Network

Author’s Introduction: Olivia Elliott is a second-year student at Virginia Tech, pursuing a bachelor’s degree with a major in criminology and double minoring in leadership studies and sociology. She is also pursuing an Honors Laureate Diploma through the Virginia Tech Honors College and is a proud

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Kirbstr Jun 8, 2024

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Richard MacManus Jun 8, 2024

There is a case to be made that we are due a ‘Napster moment’ very soon, and Perplexity may well be the Napster. In that scenario, Google especially will be compelled by legal pressures to find a way to compensate the humans who create the content that the open web relies on to continue. I guess I am hoping for that to happen, but I also don’t want to be a Lars Ulrich about it. I just want to be able to survive (and if I’m fortunate, thrive) on the open web!

Kirbstr Jun 8, 2024

Dozelemma: that feeling in the middle of the night when something easily remedied (like going to the bathroom or taking headache medicine) is keeping you awake but you are too determined that you are asleep to fix it so you stay in limbo for hours.

Kirbstr May 29, 2024

Techmeme May 29, 2024

The Internet Archive says it has been under an intermittent DDoS attack for the last three days, making access inconsistent, however the collections remain safe (Kate Irwin/PCMag)

https://www.pcmag.com/news/internet-archive-hit-with-ddos-attack
http://www.techmeme.com/240528/p26#a240528p26