Hello everyone and welcome back to section number
6 of our ocean journey together called
social media intelligence. You are
officially something over halfway to the completion of this course,
and I'm very excited with the sections remaining. And
as, you know, it is pretty hard to meet a person who
doesn't use the internet or who doesn't have
some online account or, or
More on social media sites, the usage
of social media is mostly fun. Like Hughes like
playing games socialize with people and learn
about almost anything. You can imagine, in my opinion. There
are two sides of this coin so I
can freely say fortunately, and unfortunately, Facebook,
Google LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter
and so forth. Have become an integral part
of our lives and open source.
Intelligence is the thing that goes through all the different.
Data.
Now, let's make a quick overview. What are we going to talk about
in this section? First is, of course,
Facebook almost like Google in the previous section with the
search engines. This is from my
point of view. Probably the hardest topic to teach about because
of the fast changes in the social media realm, especially
Facebook. I have mentioned before that
all of the tools in the context of osint have to
be taken with caution. Just because of the fast changing
situations with
The tools. Correct functioning we
will go over the proper new account creation. Some
tricks with the Facebook IDs. And of
course, I will provide you with materials for further studies on
the topic. After Facebook. We
will go through Twitter and it's details how to search
what tools to use and so forth. Then
we will go through a few demonstrations of specific data
acquirement of linked information, base
bin, and give bits of advice for
Searching other search social networks, like Snapchat, and
Tick-Tock, but we will not forget about great resource
of information like Reddit and Tinder. However,
funny it may sound to you at first and
the last topic of the section that we will
cover our sock puppets, which is probably one
of my favorites in tag teams in open source intelligence. I
won't spoil the fun on telling you more about them.
So see you in the last video of this section. We will learn all
about it.
Now let's start with the first topic of our social media
intelligence section. And that is Facebook because
I have mentioned just like Google is the biggest search
engine who was our first stop. Now is
Facebook has the biggest social network in the world just
before we dive into Facebook. I would like to share a
cool fact with you.
Did you know that there are more than two point,
seven billion monthly active users on Facebook as
of the second quarter of 2020. That
is a pretty impressive number can't even imagine. What
would George Orwell say about that? And
yes, I would definitely recommend you to read his book
with the title 1984. If
you read it, then you know what I mean by saying this?
Okay. Now you are probably familiar with Facebook as
a platform and I won't go into details what it is
and how it is used where it is rather to
say what you can potentially get out from Facebook in
the open source, intelligence context, a
little bit of history in June 2019, Facebook
declined, access to its great osint
resource called the Facebook Graph, Google
it with the word osint and you will or
will only
See how people's investigations got much harder. Facebook,
Graph was a great search engine on Facebook. That
was designed to give answers to user natural language
queries rather than a list of links. This
graph featured. That was shut down
with the combination of the Big Data acquired from its
billions of users and external data and
put it all into a search engine.
Imagine how open source intelligence in the
context of social media. Just get harder.
Well, that is it. Just wanted to share that and recommend
for you to check this important fact now
in the context of osint and creating a potential, new
undercover / fake account. Also
get a lot harder for most
new users, Facebook will require a cell phone.
Number to send the verification text upon account
creation, Google VoIP numbers. Do
not work. They worked in the past. So I
have a few recommendations when creating a new account.
Because you can get easily banned from even for
even accessing Facebook. First is
do not use a VPN rather
your real address. And if you're worried about privacy
of your home, IP address, I
recommend on doing this on a public Wi-Fi. Also
do not do it on a tour Network.
Second Use a real email address, no disposable or
one time. Limited emails, rather
open an email on a well-known email service like
Gmail or Yahoo, and lastly be sure
to use a clean browser without cache and
cookies from any other services because they
might have something in themselves that will communicate with
Facebook. Remember the Firefox add-ons
multi accounts containers.
And now for a few tips, how to find find very important
information about any Facebook profile, group
or page and that is their IDs. Those
ideas are usually needed when conducting searches using
other Facebook related tools, and believe
me when you dive into the tools for Gathering, Facebook data, IDs
are pieces of information. You will want to
learn these data is usually hidden, but if you
know where to look,
Then you will be on the right, track. Okay.
Now first is the
Profile ID, go to the users profile
and right-click on the web page
to view the source code with your browser through
the search web page tool search for things,
like profile underscore ID. The
same applies to Pages look
for page underscore ID, but
with the group ID, it's a little bit
different. You need to search for the group ID.
Written together, no underscore additional
resources for further learning about techniques
in regard to Facebook, research is osint.
Curious dot u, s like
Austin curious, which has a lot of
different osint tips and secrets of the trade. Then
there is places that net. That's PL
essas dotnet
/ Facebook Matrix, which
also has great resources.
Or Facebook research, and lastly. Mr.
Michael puzzles until techniques.com. This
is maybe my favorite because mr. Pizzelles
also and research focuses on the Privacy side
of osint and how to protect yourself. But
he has. He also has great resources regard
to social media. Now,
again, I would like to share a fun fact with you.
Did you know that Facebook removed? 3.2 billion?
Yes billion fake accounts in
a period of six months in the year?
2019. At first, I thought this
information was simply not real or misleading
in the worse case, but when you come to think of
it, it makes sense. Personally. I
know persons who have dozens of Facebook profiles and
they aren't even involved in open source, intelligence
in any way or
Cybersecurity for that matter.
Now to get back to our course and the announcement of
the next video, we will talk about Twitter. So see
you there.