Writing about cybersecurity, technology, and open source intelligence strategies. Passionate about giving people the tools they need to feel empowered by technology, not overwhelmed. Did we also mention we're straight-up nerds at heart? Get the latest information on blog posts and production information via Telegram: t.me/investigator515
23 Nov 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
Open Source Firmware is great for re purposing embedded systems. If you’ve been on the internet for any period of time, like many folk you probably have received an abundance of routers, hardware and other useful bits and pieces to get your home onli...
20 Nov 2023 2 minute read 8 comments Investigator515
Bluesky Social If you've been watching the decline of twitter / X recently, a question that's regularly asked is "what next"?. While the launch of Meta's Threads looked to be a viable contender for a while, the truth is that no one has been able to c...
18 Nov 2023 7 minute read 4 comments Investigator515
The transition from film to digital helped transform how we consume media. For those of us that are of the older persuasion, if we were to say “60 minute processing” or mention the brand Kodak it would probably elicit some interesting memories....
15 Nov 2023 9 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
Capturing Slow Scan Television transmitted from space All signals intercepted for this article are posted on YouTube. The event has finished but you can carry out these same exercises by using the captured signals and processing them yourself using a...
12 Nov 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
Social Media provides a fire hose of data that is open to careful analysis. In today’s world, social media is like our second life. It provides news, entertainment and general amusement direct to our mobile devices. These likes, posts and reposts pro...
7 Nov 2023 4 minute read 3 comments Investigator515
Learning Tools are an essential part of any educational journey While a lot of the writing we’ve presented tends to focus on software and strategies today we’re taking a look in a different direction, by focusing on hardware that can assist the learn...
4 Nov 2023 5 minute read 2 comments Investigator515
We usually look at historical viruses, today is something different In our earlier historical articles about computer worms and viruses we’ve taken a historical approach, highlighting variants that were often built by students, researchers or people...
31 Oct 2023 7 minute read 2 comments Investigator515
The Facsimile reigned supreme before the implementation of email In What the Tech?!, we’ve taken the time to explore some of the technology that was essential in helping us establish our connected world. We’ve looked at satellites and transistor...
28 Oct 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
The first appearance of the MGM-140 in Ukrainian hands made for an explosive debut. When you’re dealing with open source intelligence you can often deal with many unknowns. In the connected world being the “first” source to comment on an event can of...
24 Oct 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
Talking about Mental Health preservation during Investigative work. For many people, the face of warfare and investigative work has changed significantly. With the uptake in technology comes options around remote work and citizen journalism paired w...
