Hello everyone, welcome back. Now, for a short
overview of a couple of cool resources that you will
probably use in your open source, intelligence search activities. There
are called Google Images. I searched from.com
and the Wayback machine.
The first one is Google Images. This
is pretty self-explanatory. Google provides
you with?
The results of images based on your search term.
Select images and you will see all the images.
In regard to our search term osint.
The biggest used of this search is when you do the reverse image search
and this will be covered later in the course. The
main thing about Google Images is that this
search will help you filter the results to those more likely
to be related to the subject of search. Okay,
that sounds a little bit too much words that complicated. But
basically, this
is what it means.
Now to get back to our tool school too. Cool resources. I
want to show you a cool tool called. I searched from.com.
And that is the address of the site. I searched
from.com.
With this tool, you can simulate a Google search
coming from a different location or device. This
is very useful. If you, for some reason, can't use or
won't use a VPN. May be the most,
beneficial feature is the device options where you
can simulate from. What kind of device type is
your Google search coming from. Let's
try it. Let's see how the search term osint
looks when someone Google's from the states.
The country will be United.
States.
Language English.
and for the device type,
I will choose an iPhone.
Search term osint.
And click search.
As you can see here, the results.
Now, I will get back.
And put the country, change the country to
my country, home country,
Croatia, and click search.
And as you can see, there is
a difference in the results.
And that can be a good reference when investigating something on
a global level.
Okay, let's clear. This can show you the other cool
tool, a great tool with a cool name, the Wayback
machine. This also sounds like a
movie title. The only thing is that it is
located on the address, archive.org /
web.
/ web dot PHP
but it doesn't matter cut.
This is a great tool to look at a
website. Historically, practical usage perspective
from a practical usage perspective. Let's
say you need to acquire some info that, you know, it
was on a site but because of the GDP are
or some other regulative, it had been taken of
the site with this kind of tool. You can maybe check it
if it's available. Let's see how
I blog it. No looked like some
time before.
Insert the Box.
Type in HTTP column
/. / it. No
dotnet.
And brow, press browse
history.
And as you can see, the timeline, when
the Wayback machine created snapshots of e.t., No,
it's shown as its displayed
as a historical View.
Let's choose the Year 2013.
and,
See how it looked like on
June 8th.
Okay, that that is seven years ago.
Okay, you just open the website of Interest
how it looks today, and you
can cross reference, reference it with
the looks from before. As you can see,
clicking through the timeline at the top of the page that
will load the viewed page as it appeared
on the date selected.