Brad Snyder

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PAI Research & OSINT enthusiast
USAF Intel (retired)
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This is What a Personal Surveillance System Actually Looks Like
Chaincoder | April 3, 2026
https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/this-is-what-a-personal-surveillance-system-actually-looks-like/
This Is What a Personal Surveillance System Actually Looks Like

You stop thinking of it as surveillance. It becomes “the system.” Just part of how things run.

Chaincoder
Russian shadow fleet Open Chronicle Open Chronicle

Image: Kyrylo Shevchenko X @KShevchenkoReal The Russian shadow fleet is a clandestine network of hundreds of vessels operated by Russia to evade sanctions, following the enactment of the 2022 Russian crude oil price cap sanctions by the G7 countries and the European Union (EU), in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Background According to Al Jazeera, Russia uses a shadow fleet to…

Open Chronicle
DNI Gabbard Releases 2026 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community | Office of the Director of National Intelligence

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Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Iran’s ruling structure explained

Although the supreme leader assumes the majority of power, Iran’s regime consists of a network of governing bodies.

The Conversation

How a Music Streaming CEO Built an Open-Source Global Threat Map in His Spare Time

https://www.wired.com/story/world-monitor-elie-habib/

How a Music Streaming CEO Built an Open-Source Global Threat Map in His Spare Time

Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and satellite detections, to track conflicts as they unfold.

WIRED
Attributing Russian Information Influence Operations: Testing the Information Influence Attribution Framework with real-world case studies
A Joint Report from the Ukrainian Centre for Strategic Communications and the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:groupPost:1271127-7429417016576413696/
Watch All of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Performed on Original Baroque Instruments
https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/vivaldis-four-seasons-performed-on-original-baroque-instruments.html
Watch All of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Performed on Original Baroque Instruments

Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons reigns as one of the world’s most recognizable early 18th-century pieces, thanks to its frequent appearances in films and television commercials. Upon its debut in 1725, The Four Seasons stunned listeners by telling a story without the help of a human voice.

Open Culture
Russia's Little Red Men: The Shadow Fleet Spies Nobody’s Looking For
Rae Baker | February 2, 2026
https://www.raebaker.net/blog/littleredmen
Russia's Shadow Fleet Spies: The OSINT Gap Nobody Sees<br/> — Rae Baker: Deep Dive

Armed Russians from Moran Security Group are boarding shadow fleet tankers as covert operatives. Here's why OSINT analysts are missing the human layer and how to find crew data nobody's collecting.

Rae Baker: Deep Dive
China Maritime Studies Institute, Vol. 1, No. 2
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-quarterly-review/vol1/iss2/6/
Vol. 1, No. 2 Full Issue

Full issue of Issue 1 of the CMSI Quarterly Review.

U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons
Social Media Manipulation for Sale: 2025 NATO Experiment on Platform Capabilities to Detect and Counter Inauthentic Social Media Engagement
SWJ Staff | February 3, 2026
https://smallwarsjournal.com/2026/02/03/social-media-manipulation-for-sale-2025-nato-experiment-on-platform-capabilities-to-detect-and-counter-inauthentic-social-media-engagement/
Social Media Manipulation for Sale: 2025 NATO Experiment on Platform Capabilities to Detect and Counter Inauthentic Social Media Engagement

NATO released their latest experiment offering the comprehensive evidence to date of how commercially inauthentic engagement continues exploits platform vulnerabilities.

Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University