WHERE - It's often a question of searching Google Earth & looking for remarkable features - "like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle". Often need corroborating intel from the ground to narrow down the haystack you're looking in. - @samdubberley
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WHEN - establishing year based on prominent buildings, season etc based on foliage, shadows based on direction of sun, etc.
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WHO - specific uniforms & weapons, proximity to security force bases etc, linguistic clues in accent, terminology etc
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Open source tools available to answer many of these questions - e.g. Camopedia, which is a good resource to determine uniform types based on known uses of specific camouflage patterns http://camopedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page …
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Others, such as the linguistic clues, often need corroboration with experts or local sources.
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After discovery of content,
@amnesty's DVC preserves it, uploads it to our collaborative platform@trulymedia to verify it and then carry out further analysis.1 reply 1 retweet 3 likesShow this thread -
At DVC workshop in
@EssexHRC,@samdubberley has just covered how to use reverse-image & reverse-video searches & EXIF data to track down the online history of images. Some great#OSINT tools for this available herehttps://start.me/p/ZNLPYO/verification-tools …1 reply 1 retweet 2 likesShow this thread -
"Not everything's an AK-47..."
@Brian_Castner begins DVC session on identifying weapons & munitions - incl military grade & less-lethal weapons used in policing.#OSINTpic.twitter.com/fHuRE5AD44
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Replying to @WritesRights
Very cool of you to livetweet some of that seminar. Only the vaguely SMG-shaped pellet gun (?) on the left is totally unfamiliar.
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Replying to @asteris
It’s an M320 grenade launcher https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M320_Grenade_Launcher_Module …
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Ah, the replacement of the M203 http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/M203_grenade_launcher … first time I've seen it, though apparently it was in CoD:MW3 http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_M320 …
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