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Nathan Patin

@NathanPatin

@Bellingcat member || adjunct @Georgetown || digital investigations, infrastructure hunting, MENA, IOs, animal welfare, soccer

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And another wonderful semester of ✨Hands-On Open-Source Investigation✨ is complete! Huge thanks to @arawnsley and @badtakeblake for guest lecturing and sharing your expertise and experience w/ my students (and me)! It was a highlight of the course 🙌


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Striking open-source investigation by @lemondefr: security personnel for Biden (and wife), Trump (and wife), Harris, Pence, Putin, and Macron all used Strava, inadvertently exposing the whereabouts of the (vice) presidents they were tasked to protect. youtube.com/watch?v=KX7f1P…

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SCOOP: Chinese hackers who tunneled deeply into U.S. telecommunications providers successfully captured audio recordings from people affiliated with BOTH the Harris and Trump campaigns as part of Beijing's far broader and very successful spying operation. wsj.com/livecoverage/h…


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🧵Google Earth has updated some of it's satellite imagery from northern and central #Gaza to 14/19 October 2023 I'll share some locations below. Eastern Shuja'iyya - 19 Oct. 2023 (31.490771, 34.478575) 1/

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Experimenting a bit with using LLMs to parse Telegram channels and then using the Nominatim API to geolocate events. I'm surprised at how well this works. Output below is from UNIFIL's Telegram channel.

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In 2020, authorities arrested armed men who drove a Hummer with a QAnon sticker and a US flag on it from Virginia to a ballot counting centre in Pennsylvania. The rhetoric has gotten worse since then. It's grim but unsurprising that election officials are bracing themselves.

New: The FBI and DHS are warning state and local law enforcement that extremists inspired by conspiracy theories "most likely" violent threat to 2024 elections. nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…



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The DHS quietly warned this month that cybercriminals—particularly ransomware actors—are more likely than state-sponsored hackers to actually disrupt election infrastructure. A pretty disturbing benchmark from @lilyhnewman and @dell.bsky.social wired.com/story/cybercri…


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Many have asked about @googleearth's new browser updates and how they work, so here’s a quick guide on timelapses, historical imagery and easy sharing with case studies on Amazon deforestation, conflict destruction and disaster damage. youtu.be/1aR1s0tkYhs?si…


Annnnnnd it's suspended again; well done @skirchy for highlighting

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Malice or incompetence? The evergreen X game



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Israel's NSO Group is lobbying Republicans hard to reverse its U.S. blacklisting, spending nearly $2 mil so far this year. On the same day lobbyists for NSO met with Texas Rep. Pete Sessions, they gave $1,000 to “Pete Sessions for Congress.” @theintercept

Pegasus Spyware Maker Said to Flout Federal Court as It Lobbies to Get Off U.S. Blacklist interc.pt/3YuKf8B">interc.pt/3YuKf8B by @GeorgiaGee14 interc.pt/3YuKf8B">interc.pt/3YuKf8B



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New: lawsuit says warrantless use of Flock surveillance cameras—those license plate reading cameras that are in towns big & small across US—is unconstitutional "impossible for people to drive anywhere without having their movements tracked" 404media.co/lawsuit-argues…


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NEW: (and very good news) 🇬🇧 UK-based dissident can sue Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 for alleged spyware, court rules reuters.com/world/uk-based…


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Video released by the IDF allowed the site where Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed to be geolocated to the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood in Rafah. By @JakeGodin for Bellingcat: bellingcat.com/news/2024/10/1…


Galen has done it again 🙌 this time a tool that displays filenames on Google Maps user uploads

Who knew that Google Maps image filenames were so useful? But when @KolinaKoltai showed me how to extract them, it made so much sense to build a simple tool that does it for you! 🖼️👩‍💻 bellingcat.com/resources/2024…



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Who knew that Google Maps image filenames were so useful? But when @KolinaKoltai showed me how to extract them, it made so much sense to build a simple tool that does it for you! 🖼️👩‍💻 bellingcat.com/resources/2024…

Bellingcat’s @Galen_Reich is presenting his latest tool! The Bellingcat Filename Finder is a browser extension that shows you the original filename of images on Google Maps. This can provide useful clues for your investigations. bellingcat.com/resources/2024…



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@waybackmachine  volume is back to normal: 1,500 requests per second. Sorry we don't have other services yet.  (Your good wishes have helped a good team @internetarchive ) more as it happens.


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