Be careful what you OSINT with

My lightning talk from this year s BSides København on the potential dangers of using unvetted software in OSINT investigations. How many of us actually vet the software we use Do we always know who s behind the software Can we be sure that there aren t any back doors implemented A while back some friends and I had a deeper look at an upcoming OSINT tool. It turns out the software wasn t from the company and country it claimed to be, and direct links to one of Russians largest surveillance companies (a