WEBVTT 00:00.560 --> 00:02.800 In this video I want to talk about blue Sky. 00:03.280 --> 00:08.840 If you're not familiar with what blue Sky is, essentially it's a social media app. 00:10.080 --> 00:15.600 Basically the same as what Twitter used to be, or X as what it's called now. 00:16.800 --> 00:23.680 And that's no surprise because the person that started Twitter, Jack Dorsey, went on to make blue 00:23.680 --> 00:25.360 Sky after he sold Twitter. 00:25.880 --> 00:30.520 Now, blue Sky is a decentralized social media app. 00:30.560 --> 00:37.480 Again, it's much like the old Twitter and you can find that blue Sky app. 00:38.080 --> 00:43.080 Now, I took a while to make this video because one. 00:43.080 --> 00:49.560 It was in beta for a long time and I was able to get in the beta, but there weren't a lot of people 00:49.560 --> 00:50.440 in at the time. 00:51.200 --> 00:59.800 Now that, um, X essentially collapsed in on itself, a lot of people left X, including prominent 00:59.800 --> 01:08.420 people and, um, regular users and they a lot of them came over to blue Sky, which is pretty great. 01:09.380 --> 01:15.540 Unfortunately, a lot of, uh, internet trolls and that also came over with them because of course, 01:15.620 --> 01:21.900 if it's a popular social media popular forum, of course, uh, internet trolls and other bots and whatnot 01:21.900 --> 01:23.060 are going to come over too. 01:24.060 --> 01:31.500 So that's why it's important to actually go over blue sky in terms of open source intelligence and reconnaissance. 01:33.220 --> 01:42.260 So I have a public figure up here, uh, Jeff Gerstmann and essentially a lot of the investigation techniques 01:42.260 --> 01:46.380 that we're going to use is going to be the same as any other social media. 01:46.580 --> 01:56.380 So pulling up the page, we we have our blue Sky app here, and I'm going to start by a particular person. 01:56.380 --> 01:58.220 So in this case we have Jeff Gerstmann. 01:58.220 --> 01:59.820 So I have a full name. 01:59.820 --> 02:00.420 It's not real. 02:00.460 --> 02:01.300 It's not a handle. 02:01.300 --> 02:02.340 So I could take this name. 02:02.340 --> 02:05.910 I could feed it into a people search and find out more about this person. 02:06.550 --> 02:11.830 I could see their blue sky handle at Jeff gerstmann.com. 02:12.990 --> 02:14.910 I could take that URL. 02:14.910 --> 02:18.590 I can punch it into into a browser, see where that takes me. 02:18.950 --> 02:20.430 I could do a who is on that. 02:20.430 --> 02:28.550 I could take that at Jeff Gerstmann and throw it into something like Sherlock or Hohe and see if that 02:28.550 --> 02:31.990 username is used elsewhere, tracking that down. 02:33.110 --> 02:34.750 I could also take a look at the banner here. 02:34.750 --> 02:37.270 And the nice thing about blue Sky is I could right click on here. 02:37.270 --> 02:43.070 I could save these images and of course any sort of images. 02:43.070 --> 02:47.870 We want to grab the images and analyze it, see what the content is on there. 02:49.510 --> 02:55.030 I can see the number of followers he has, the number of people that he's following and the number of 02:55.030 --> 02:55.870 posts that he has. 02:55.870 --> 02:57.310 And of course, I'm going to go through. 02:57.310 --> 03:02.670 If I'm doing an investigation of this particular person, I'm going to go through, take a look at who 03:02.670 --> 03:08.090 he's following, see if he made comments on those particular pages of other people. 03:08.890 --> 03:12.090 Take a look at who's following them if there's a pattern to that. 03:12.490 --> 03:15.490 What people are posting about them. 03:16.610 --> 03:19.170 And of course go through his posts. 03:19.330 --> 03:29.490 So going through in order here we have the the little byline or quote that people have. 03:29.650 --> 03:33.170 And we can go through here, see if there's additional information. 03:33.170 --> 03:34.530 He has a Patreon here. 03:34.530 --> 03:39.770 So I of course, I'm going to go to the Patreon and start pulling as much information as I can. 03:39.770 --> 03:40.890 Was to Patreon. 03:40.890 --> 03:41.930 When was it started? 03:41.970 --> 03:43.050 What are the goals? 03:43.050 --> 03:50.450 What type of things do you get, get for it, etc. etc. and I'm going to go through, start looking 03:50.450 --> 03:56.770 at all the different posts that they've made and this is a lot of posts is 2.4 thousand posts. 03:56.770 --> 04:03.570 So of course this is going to take a while, but go through, find the relevant posts, start gathering 04:03.570 --> 04:09.290 information again, see who commented, what are the comments, who reshared it? 04:09.290 --> 04:12.790 Who liked the pose and so on and so forth. 04:14.430 --> 04:19.030 Now other things we could do are we could click on search here. 04:19.070 --> 04:20.630 Actually let me go back one here. 04:21.510 --> 04:24.910 Um, up here, if I want to make it shorter I can look at posts. 04:24.910 --> 04:27.310 I can click on replies or replies. 04:27.310 --> 04:27.870 He has. 04:28.470 --> 04:33.910 And of course I can click on media and it'll take me straight to the different media that they've posted. 04:33.990 --> 04:41.110 So another thing I could do is go to search here, and I could take a look at what's trending. 04:41.270 --> 04:47.430 If there's a trending topic topic that I want to look into, I could type that in here and potentially 04:47.470 --> 04:50.630 find out more posts about that. 04:50.630 --> 04:51.150 Currently. 04:51.150 --> 04:53.790 At the time of this recording, it is in beta. 04:54.670 --> 05:00.990 I also can see what's recommended and blue Sky uses the hashtag just like Twitter or text uses. 05:00.990 --> 05:06.550 So I could type in hashtag whatever and potentially find other hashtags with that. 05:07.710 --> 05:09.830 I could also find suggested accounts. 05:10.630 --> 05:14.170 I can discover new feeds in here, which is all pretty handy. 05:16.610 --> 05:22.210 And if I type in something like Q anon. 05:22.370 --> 05:25.850 For example, I can see different information about that. 05:25.850 --> 05:29.130 Um, Q and on uh. 05:29.170 --> 05:35.130 Schoolboy Q anon Q in on sense blue sky. 05:35.170 --> 05:36.410 ET cetera, et cetera. 05:38.170 --> 05:39.290 Now let's go back here. 05:41.890 --> 05:44.210 And other things we could do. 05:44.250 --> 05:47.530 Or we can click on notifications. 05:47.570 --> 05:50.290 Of course it will tell us what sort of notifications that we're getting. 05:50.290 --> 05:50.770 Chats. 05:50.770 --> 05:53.890 If you have different chats feeds. 05:53.890 --> 05:59.770 Uh, I could do this will list all the feeds that I'm that I saved that I'm following. 06:00.290 --> 06:03.570 I could do things like discover new feeds. 06:03.570 --> 06:10.210 I can click on there and it'll give me different things that that it thinks I'm going to want science. 06:10.250 --> 06:12.330 You could discover new feeds in here. 06:12.330 --> 06:16.300 So what I did was I typed in Q in on. 06:20.620 --> 06:23.940 And it gives me a couple feeds for QAnon. 06:25.260 --> 06:31.260 So pretty useful if I, if I have a particular feed or a particular use for a feed that I want to start 06:31.260 --> 06:32.900 discovering information on. 06:34.260 --> 06:37.620 And again, we have different lists and other settings and so forth. 06:37.620 --> 06:47.060 So again, it's uh, again, it's a lot of it's going to be much like the old, uh, Twitter some degree, 06:47.060 --> 06:50.900 the current Twitter X for doing our investigation. 06:51.300 --> 06:57.660 If find out when they started what their handle are, what collect the media, investigate their posts, 06:57.700 --> 07:02.660 see who they're following, see who's following them, check their posts for relevant information that 07:02.660 --> 07:11.260 links to each other, so on and so forth, and definitely make use of the feeds and the search options 07:11.260 --> 07:12.260 in blue sky. 07:12.660 --> 07:15.460 And again you can find that B Sky Dot app. 07:15.900 --> 07:16.820 Thank you for watching. 07:16.940 --> 07:18.260 I'll see you in the next video.