r/OSINT

So I randomly came across a post on r/privacy talking about how Gemini can basically OSINT a Reddit account even if their post history is hidden.
I tried it myself and ngl, it’s kinda crazy how much stuff you can piece together.

The basic idea is literally just giving Gemini(or any other LLM) a Reddit username and asking it to look for their Reddit activity. It’ll search around for posts/comments from that account and try to put everything together into a summary. The interesting part is that even if someone’s profile doesn’t show their history, their individual comments/posts can still be sitting around in old threads, search engine indexes, archives, datasets, etc.

And once you have an AI doing the searching + connecting the dots for you, you don’t really have to manually go through hundreds of comments yourself. If someone has been posting for years, you can potentially start figuring out their interests, hobbies, where they live, what they do, other accounts they might have, etc.

I was wondering if anyone here has played around with this more. Like, how far can you actually take this with normal OSINT techniques + Reddit archives/search engines + an LLM? Also makes me wonder what the “hide all posts” setting on Reddit actually protects you from. It seems like it hides the history from your profile, but doesn’t necessarily make the underlying posts hard to find.

I have tried 12ft.io and removepaywall.com and archive.is and they dont work for me. Are there any other alternatives which let you bypass a paywall

had a case where i only had a 4 year old profile picture and a dead username. spent 2 days doing name > address > socials and got nowhere.

out of frustration i tried reversing it. started with the picture, then used the metadata from where that picture was still cached, not even where it was posted. that one cache hit gave me a second username, and that second username had a completely different breach attached to it.

went from dead end to current city + workplace in like 30 mins.

makes me wonder how much time i've wasted doing it in the "correct" order. anyone else work backwards like this?

Hey everyone, I wonder if there's a way to track down, via archived comments associated with a Google+ account, the YouTube channel associated with the Google account or GAIA ID in question.

I was able to find a thread from several years ago, but it seemed like the comments with pertinent information were deleted, beyond saying it was possible. I haven't been able to find much info on this sub otherwise.

If I'm breaking any rules please let me know!

Hi there, I have lately noticed that Chinese platforms like Douyin and others are being heavily censored by the CCP, so accessing content related to anything controversial is a rare sight. I am excited to try WeChat since I have heard a lot about the extent of information which is usually available there regarding military movements and human rights (Tibet and Xinjiang). Also, I want to monitor fresh demolitions initiated by the Chinese authorities at Larung Gar Buddhist Institute recently.

Using VPN doesn't help in installing WeChat on my phone. So, thinking of doing it on my laptop. Not sure whether it would work or not. Additionally, I have heard the app requires multi-factor authentication and sometimes a fresh account needs to be verified using an existing user account. Any idea on how to get past the hassle?

Hey guys, I'm learning about OSINT and I have a question about IP addresses. What can you realistically find out from just an IP? I know you can get the ISP and approximate city/country, but what else? Can you get the exact

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Hey guys,

I’m using Melissa Personator and already bought credits. I can search by name + address and get the person’s details, age, MIK, etc., but no phone number shows up.

I see that Melissa supports phone data through the API, but is there any way to get the phone number directly through the web interface?

Or is phone data API-only?

Would appreciate anyone who’s actually used this.

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