Over practicing Osint.
Now, periodically I get questions about where can you practice osint.
How do you practice?
Osint And the standard answer was, Well, you could do an investigation on yourself, friends or family.
And while that's still true, you absolutely can.
And the nice thing about that is it's easier for you to verify the information whether it's true or
false, because technically you should know your target when you're doing osint if it's on yourself,
a family member or a friend.
However, another great resource for doing Osint investigations and practicing your own skills is trace
labs and you can find them over at Trace Labs.
Org.
Now Trace Labs, if you're not familiar with them, they're a crowd.
Crowd sourced, open source intelligence for missing people.
Essentially, they reach out to the hacking community and community for help in, well, finding people
that are missing.
And these could be adults or these could be children.
The situation may vary.
They could be runaways.
They could be potentially kidnapped, whatnot.
And the way it works is.
They'll crowdsource this stuff where the police are looking for the public's help in finding these individuals
and they will gather some of the information and they'll ask the community for help.
Now, this works in two ways.
Either there's a ongoing missing people.
Uh, investigations.
And they're also hosts now a monthly CTF where they'll have eight, I believe, eight individuals that
you go out look for these ctfs do cost, they do cost $20.
And you can do it through Eventbrite, but it's absolutely for a worthy cause.
So again, you're helping the police look for missing people.
So if you're doing the CTF, you can join a team, you can create your own team.
They'll give you eight individuals that they need help looking for and they'll give you certain flags
that you can go through and do these investigations.
Now, the great thing is, in addition to a absolutely amazing community and helping people, you get
to practice your own skills.
And the nice thing is that they will kind of give you guidance in what you're should be looking for
and they'll give you real time feedback and information that you're finding in terms of they'll vet
the information.
They'll.
They'll have you vet the information that you're that you're presenting.
And all in all, it's a really good way both again, to practice your own skills and also do something
good for the community in helping find these people.
Now, if you're going to do this, which I think is a great, great thing to do, you do want to be
very mindful.
You absolutely want to pay very close attention to the rules and you want to follow those rules to a
T so you can't forget you're dealing with missing people and the rules are in place for a reason.
It's both for your protection, their protection, and also, again, you're dealing with people that
are missing.
You're dealing.
Potentially with grieving families and friends, and you really don't want want to be disruptive.
So again, there the rules are pretty easy to follow there.
They make a lot of sense, but.
Again, this is a good resource for practicing your skills and you can find them over at Trace Lab.
Org.
And there's also a lot of resources here.
If you click on the resource tab, you can learn about their framework.
They have a podcast search party ctfs.
That's what I was talking about earlier, where you could.
Join a CTF to find missing people.
And they also have a trace lab OS and VM, which I've been using recently, and I like it a lot.
I didn't integrate it into this this course at this time, but again, it's definitely worth checking
out, especially if you're familiar with Kali Linux, which they base this VM off of.
So again, encourage you to check out https colon forward slash forward slash w.w.w.
Trace labs.org.
And again, it's a great place to practice your skills and do some real good.
Thanks for watching.
I'll see you in the next video.