Ray Serrato

@raymserrato

👨🏾‍💻 Threat Disruption . Prev: Investigator . Veteran .

Los Angeles
Joined July 2014
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    May 18

    Ultimately you need mixed-skills teams of investigations gelling OSINT skills, investigatory data science, linguists, tool developers and ML people all working together. That is utterly, manifestly different from some kind of plug-in service or grand (but secret) model.

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    May 16

    Let’s talk about spam. And let’s do so with the benefit of data, facts, and context…

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    May 10

    This is what is so wonderful about working in these fields and what is so exhausting. There is a seemingly infinite supply of "really bad guys" who are shockingly smart, resourceful and sometimes evil. You never finish the bridge; you rebuild it every day.

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    May 6

    BULLSHINT is alive and well. If you have gaps in your intelligence picture, it is ok to say "I don't know" or "I need more data to form a conclusion". It is never acceptable to fill the gaps with speculation and call it intelligence. 🧵 1/

    Shows that , done objectively, isn’t bad.Same answer as Pentagon.
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    Apr 25

    HRW’s sums it up: “Regardless of who owns Twitter, the company has human rights responsibilities to respect the rights of people around the world who rely on the platform.” (1/2)

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  6. Apr 25

    Grateful to have had a birthday yesterday - another year on this planet! - but ever since my daughter has been referring to me as "super mega old."

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    Apr 25

    I genuinely believe this is a dumb FSB officer being told to get 3 SIMs.

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    Apr 22

    A colleague recently raised “the Ship of Theseus” as an apt analogy for attribution of cyber operations over time. The thought experiment asks: if a ship in a harbor has all its parts replaced one by one, can we still consider it the same ship? On this paradox, a brief 🧵 1/8

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    Apr 21

    Completely floored by Ukraine's Digital Ministry's use of its "e-Enemy chatbot" to crowdsource info about Russian troop movements, as well as document evidence of atrocity crimes in real time:

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    Apr 13

    JOBS for journalists, researchers, folks from : The founders of are now building the to document . Important project, great team. Please RT!

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  11. Apr 7

    It's incredibly exciting to see this shift in approach. By my rough tally, investigators with an open source focus are now found (or have worked) in the Gaza CoI, Syria CoI, the Venezuela FFM, the IIM for Myanmar, and the Libya FFM.

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  12. Apr 7

    There's also another role, Open Source Investigator, that's posted alongside this one. The focus is on digital evidence analysis, collection, and preservation.

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  13. Apr 7

    An old colleague shared an exciting, new role in the UN OHCHR focused on OSINT and digital forensics for international criminal and human rights investigation.

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    Apr 5

    Last tweet for the day. While I wait for the RTI results, I filed a case today on behalf of . We argue that restricting social media is a restriction of freedom of speech, and therefore a violation of the fundamental rights of the people of Sri Lanka.

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  15. Apr 1

    Tweeted something like this before when trying to collect content at the UN.

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  16. Mar 31

    Do folks know of a good tool or method to capture the metadata from Telegram channels, specifically channel descriptions?

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  17. Mar 29

    I get a lot of leads about suspicious activity on here. Many leads aren't useful; some are okay; and a rare few are consistently good. As an investigator, there's value in looking at all of them and I deeply appreciate when people reach out.

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  18. Mar 26

    Every day there is some new claim about Russian "disinformation campaigns" or the "Russian playbook," so it's a good time to remind people that such framing isn't particularly helpful.

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    Mar 22

    roles here cc

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  20. Mar 22

    roles here cc

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