Textiles in automotive engineering Walter Fung and Mike Hardcastle 78 Forum, Newsgroup and Discussion Board Search Tools. 41 Social Media Management and Content Discovery. 39 Finding Influencers and Other Social Media Users. 25 Open Database, Directories and Services Search. 18 Visual Search and Clustering Search Engines. Chris Pallaris Director, i-intelligence GmbH

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I close by acknowledging the contributions of the many students, practitioners and Twitter followers weвЂ™ve interacted with over the past two years. Thanks too are also due to Noa Kurz who worked tirelessly over the summer to help us get this document ready. I am also indebted to Yves Baumgartner and Vytenis Benetis for routinely updating us on new solutions. Much of the credit belongs to Aleksandra Bielska who, as our Head of Training, evaluates hundreds of tools every year to determine which ones make it into our courses. I would like to thank my colleagues at i-intelligence for their efforts in compiling this Handbook. Thus, whenever testing a new script, application or browser extension, please do so in a secure environment to minimise any risk to your assets or operations. While every effort has been made to test and validate these resources, we caution that todayвЂ™s wonder tool may be tomorrowвЂ™s security liability. With your help, we can address any omissions. Something new will doubtless pop-up tomorrow, and I suspect there are hundreds of tools we havenвЂ™t even come across at all. Of course, the Handbook makes no claim to being complete. Our hope is that this Handbook helps you plug any gaps in your collection efforts and alerts you to the many tools and resources you can consult for better intelligence, including on the discipline of OSINT itself. Finally, the process of compiling this handbook is an intelligence exercise in its own right, alerting us to where we are at as a community and the challenges we are likely to face going forward вЂ“ not least of which are disinformation, the fracturing of the internet, the proliferation of niche social media platforms, and the urgent need for better tools to monitor and analyse the content they provide. It follows that the more tools you have in your portfolio, the more flexible your OSINT capabilities are likely to be. Indeed, the right tool can determine whether you harvest the right information. Third, is the inevitable realisation that good tool awareness is equivalent to good source awareness. Why? Because no research task is ever as tidy as the customerвЂ™s requirements are likely to suggest. The temptation toward narrow specialisation in OSINT is one that has to be resisted.

Second, a good OSINT practitioner is someone who is comfortable working with different tools, sources and collection strategies. A limited toolkit can never satisfy all of these constituencies. Whereas OSINT was once the preserve of analysts working in national security, it now embraces a growing class of professionals in fields as diverse as journalism, cybersecurity, investment research, crisis management and human rights. To begin, a shortlist betrays the widening spectrum of OSINT practice. My fear, however, is that they are also shortsighted. WhatвЂ™s wrong with the Top 10 tools, or the Top 100? There are only so many resources one can bookmark after all. Given the speed of change on the web, some might question the wisdom of pulling together such a resource. Once again, the Handbook has been revised and updated to reflect the evolution of this discipline, and the many strategic, operational and technical challenges OSINT practitioners have to grapple with. OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE TOOLS AND RESOURCES HANDBOOK 2020ДЄleksandra Bielska Noa Rebecca Kurz, Yves Baumgartner, Vytenis BenetisДЇoreword I am delighted to share with you the 2020 edition of the OSINT Tools and Resources Handbook.

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