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Operation Auto
Vehicle registration, regional identifier, platform profiling and reverse-WHOIS steps taken across four flags.
Writeups
Research notes from OSINT challenges and sourcing exercises. Each entry records the method, the sources consulted and the result of every step, so the reasoning can be followed and checked rather than taken on trust.
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Collections
OSINT UK
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Operation Cord
Discord forensics: account enumeration, Snowflake timestamps, hidden page data and community identification.
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Operation Kinetic
Image verification, dorking, policy tracking and public registry auditing against a single museum’s open footprint.
Sourcing Games
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Sourcing Game 1
Page source, reverse image search, shortened-URL analysis, email permutation and sitemap discovery across six levels.
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Sourcing Game 2
Button source inspection, a 1996 web archive snapshot, robots.txt paths, commit-patch email extraction and profile dorking.
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Sourcing Game 3
Directory listing, binary decoding, GitHub activity tracing, image steganography, post analysis and awards-directory matching.
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Sourcing Game 4
Death dates, “Dragon Slayer”, Boolean-search papers, a rare syndrome, meetup organisers, an inventor and a LinkedIn profile.
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Sourcing Game 5
SourceCon records, an X advanced-search time window, a personal blog, a job title and city, a CIO search and a Flickr account.
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Sourcing Game 6
An employment-agency reference, a description-based search, a second username, an interview title and a repository commit history.
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Sourcing Game 7
GitHub REST API lookups, directory fuzzing with ffuf, hash cracking, a breach password list, marketplace and lodging dorks, and a profile.
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Repository
Every writeup on this page is published in full in my public Writeups repository. Read the originals there if you want the raw source.