THREAD: Some of you came across the HRW report last month which highlighted the killings of Ethiopian migrants on the #Saudi#Yemen border by Saudi border guards. It made for tough reading. To further understand what they go through and the cold blooded nature of the killings, I produced this #OSINT based analysis parsing through satellite imagery and TikTok videos, using the HRW's report & my interviews with two survivors. There won't be anything graphic here, just eyeopening.
THREAD: This thread discusses the December 2020 forced expulsion of people inhabiting farming communities in a disputed border area claimed by both Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and Sudan🇸🇩. #Osint data appears to suggest that Sudanese troops may have carried out atrocities when it removed hundreds if not thousands of Ethiopians from the Al Fashaga triangle. Nobody has properly documented the expulsions and there's not enough evidence to draw conclusions.
THREAD: This is a 2021 satellite image showing part of a typical farming village in a rural part of Ethiopia's Oromia region. A few thousand people lived here, tended to the land and cattle, a simple life.
In June 2022, it was the site of a horrifying massacre of 300-400 civilians. Armed militants affiliated with either the Ethiopian state, or the rebel Oromo Liberation Army, targeted the ethnic Amhara minority in the area and didn't spare women, children or the elderly.
This post is about cybersecurity, OSINT, and privacy.
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Today’s surveillance cameras perform very well in low light conditions. In theaters, or any other public space, never assume that you can’t be seen because it’s dark. You can be seen. You are being seen. You are being recorded.
My latest story is the cover page of this weekend's @thecontinent newspaper. Catch my war crimes investigation which probes allegations from #Ethiopia 's month long conflict in its northern Amhara region. This is the first story with visual evidence of abuses by Ethiopian troops, & features eyewitness testimony, geolocation of a recently surfaced viral execution video & exclusive comments from a rebel commander we reached by phone. Yeah it's grim. I will CW from this point on. #OSINT#Amhara
Find out why a series of events leads to the end of the insightful and enjoyable podcast The Privacy, Security, and OSINT Show that fans will dearly miss.
Recently on a local facebook buy/sale/trade group someone put their house on the website for a ridiculously low amount (under $2000) and said that the house is not livable and needs to be torn down. There is a picture of the house and the city where it is located. He also used his real facebook account.
I exercised my budding #OSINT skills and found out some interesting info. First, I found that he lived in that city and when I checked the address, I saw that the house is the same one from the facebook group. I now know that he did at least live in the house at one time. However according to the county tax assessor, he is not the owner of the house.
I wrote back to him privately with these facts. I might actually buy the house for the land and build something on it. Of course, I may have freaked him out by replying with much more info than he had given. I'm just doing my due diligence and I will need to know for sure that the house is legit before I spend any money.
The number of vehicles, aircraft, naval vessels, and weapons systems lost by Russian forces since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine has surpassed 15,000, the open-source investigative project Oryx announced on March 24. The figure includes 2,856 tanks, 135 helicopters, 106 aircraft, 20 naval ships, and
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Time for another #osint#geolocation puzzle! This was from a family vacation many years ago.
What amusement park was I at?
What ride am I on? Can you identify the approximate location within the ride?
Roughly was the photo taken? Provide "not before" and "not after" bounds (although if you think you can narrow it down to a specific day, be my guest!)
As usual, please CW guesses or solutions to avoid spoilers for other people.
Apparently the OSINT community over on the dead bird... is in shambles. "..what the current war in Israel and Gaza has made clear in recent days is that there are many verified, popular accounts on Twitter that use the OSINT term to give legitimacy to shoddy work that only creates more confusion. What exists now is a profit and engagement driven ecosystem of non-experts who in some cases may be spreading videos for the clout and cash, rather than to inform readers about what is actually true. " #osint#war#israel#gazahttps://www.404media.co/twitter-verified-osint-accounts-are-destroying-the-israel-palestine-information-ecosystem/
C’est moi ou il y a une campagne de désinformation en court comme quoi 62% des français seraient opposés a plus d’inclusivité dans les remakes ?
Le commanditaire est un blog de voyage (?), la frontpage du blog ne contient quasiment que le détail du sondage (et ce n’est pas un article ou page au sens wordpress du terme).
Le blog existe depuis 2013 (enregistrement du domaine) mais la boîte gestionnaire uniquement depuis 2015, et la marque a été déposée en fin d’année dernière
Russian equipment losses in Ukraine surpass 15,000, says Oryx OSINT group (kyivindependent.com)
The number of vehicles, aircraft, naval vessels, and weapons systems lost by Russian forces since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine has surpassed 15,000, the open-source investigative project Oryx announced on March 24. The figure includes 2,856 tanks, 135 helicopters, 106 aircraft, 20 naval ships, and