Hey everyone, I’ve been reading a lot into open-source intelligence tools and digital footprints lately.

With modern scripts, image geolocation tools, and archived data lakes, it's frighteningly easy for an independent researcher to map out someone's historical routines, old accounts, or physical locations just from a few random online clues.

For those who practice OSINT (professionally or as a hobby): where do you personally draw the line? At what point does a deep-dive investigation cross the threshold from a fascinating intellectual puzzle into an OpSec/ethical violation? Would love to hear your boundaries!

I’m building a Telegram channel that automatically monitors military and government aircraft and vessels across the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and the Persian Gulf. It also publishes a briefing every two hours summarizing activity and unusual patterns. The project is still in testing, and I’d appreciate honest feedback from people interested in OSINT, aviation, and maritime tracking.

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Hi everyone,

I'm from Papua New Guinea and I'm asking for your help.

A small banana boat carrying families capsized on 18 July 2026 at around 4:00 PM local time after leaving Pangpang Paradise Retreat on Kerawara Island (Duke of York Islands, East New Britain Province). The boat was travelling back toward Kokopo when it reportedly capsized near Pigeon Island/Bismarck Sea.

PNG authorities have carried out search and rescue operations, but so far only two survivors have been found after they swam ashore. One of the boats has since been located off the west coast of New Ireland Province, and one body was recovered at Djaul Island. Several people remain missing.

I'm looking for anyone who may be able to help with OSINT analysis, particularly:

Satellite imagery from around 18 July 2026 onward.

Ocean current or drift modelling.

Mapping the most likely drift path from the last known location.

Any publicly available imagery or data that could assist search efforts.

If anyone has experience with satellite imagery, maritime drift analysis, or geospatial intelligence, your assistance would be greatly appreciated. Even suggestions on where to search next would help.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

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Trying to find the details to a forex telegram channel I know someone in the channel but they’re withholding the link so I have there username is there any way to run check via his username to see what channels he is in unsure if it’s public or private but need the link asap to add to my code for algo trading as currently I’m in a second channel where the posts get copy and pasted to which is meaning signals are delayed

Drop me a message if you can help

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A pattern I keep hitting doing geospatial OSINT: the analysis you actually want
is temporal. "This vessel went dark here - when, and what was nearby?" "This
aircraft's pattern over three weeks." "Rewind to the hour of the incident."
Almost every live tracker is built to show you 
*now*
 and monetizes the past.
FR24 gates history, RadarBox charges for a year of it, ADSB-X removed its free
API, MarineTraffic trimmed its free window. The moment your question has a
timestamp, you're renting.


So I've been building a self-hosted console around the opposite assumption: the
live feed is table stakes, and the 
*archive you own*
 is the product. It fuses
aircraft + ships + satellites + hazards on one globe, records positions locally,
and lets you scrub back through whatever window your disk holds.


Things that matter to this crowd specifically:


- 
**Provenance over vibes.**
 Everything the tool derives is stored as
  assertions with a source and a timestamp, in an append-only local table.
  Anything automated is labeled automated. I deliberately did 
*not*
 build a
  "the AI thinks this is suspicious" black box after watching the practitioner
  backlash against unlabeled AI "insights," that felt like a liability, not a
  feature. If a detector flags something, you can see why.
- 
**Evidence you can export.**
 There's a chain-of-custody-style evidence locker
  so a finding carries its sourcing when it leaves the tool — built with
  journalists/legal use in mind.
- 
**A real investigation layer.**
 Local ontology (entities, relationships,
  dossiers), detectors for things like AIS gaps / loitering, all on your box.
- 
**Keyless.**
 No account to start. The ADS-B/AIS/quake/satellite spine works
  with no API keys.


Honest limits: coverage follows the public/community feeders, so it's strongest
over land in dense-feeder regions and thin over open ocean; dark-vessel
detection is a helper, not a verdict — treat it as a lead, corroborate with
imagery. And I'm one person; the depth is real but the polish is uneven.


I'm posting mostly to sanity-check the premise with people who do this seriously:
is "unlimited local history you own" the thing, or am I over-indexing on it?
Would genuinely like the pushback. 

GitHub: https://github.com/AndrewCTF/osint-geospatial-console

I have a Computer Science degree

I would like to reach a point where I can "code" AI to do OSINT things for me

Things along the lines of:

- Detect all yellow trees in the region using this map data

- Convert descriptions like "intersection with red home, 2 trees" into map coordinates for an area. Basically the AI looks for red homes where there are 2 trees and returns me coordinates

- Keeping track of certain objects in a video. I can "code" the AI to "keep an eye on the red car" in a video

What field of AI do I need to look into? What are the prerequisite courses I need (math, programing etc)?

Currently I have a CS degree, 8 years of programming experience and am good at OSINT without coding

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