New Hacks Replace Old Hacks

booleanstringsBoolean, Hack, OSINT 1 Comment

It’s never boring with sourcing tools and sites. Things change all the time and, at times, we lose tools. A major #OSINT publication Bellingcat writes that last week was “a hell week for research”: The past week dealt several blows to open source researchers. First, Facebook made major changes to its Graph search interface, effectively breaking previous methods to search …

Bye, Facebook Graph Search

booleanstringsBoolean, OSINT 5 Comments

On Friday, June 7th, Facebook Graph Search stopped working. “Hand-made” URLs and tools Intelligence Search, SearchIsBack, StalkScan, and others, no longer work. (I believe it’s a permanent change). Needless to say, the drop in functionality badly affects Sourcers and, especially, OSINT people. Searches that used to have URLs with Facebook IDs and pieces like “visitors” and “likers” combined, now look …