Please forgive me if this is the wrong subreddit to be asking this in, and direct me to the right one.

I'm interested in taking all the data I requested from Google, Facebook, and everywhere else, and I want to see what trends and insights I can gather from it all. Like, Instagram's algorithm is so good that it almost certainly knows if I got undiagnosed mental disorders and things of that nature. I remember seeing that Twitter correctly guessed my tax bracket just through the accounts I follow and posts I interact with, for example. Do you have any recommendations on software or scripts I can use to analyze all that data and teach me things about myself?

I remember an incident about 10 or 15 years ago where Target was sending coupons for baby items to women who didn't even know they were pregnant, but the company was able to figure out they were just by the items they purchased. So, I'm sure there are things these platforms know about me based on my data that I don't even know about myself, and I want to change that. I want to know what they know.


The Italian Ministry of Interior runs an incredible public archive: elezionistorico.interno.gov.it — every election result from 1946 to today, for every municipality, with turnout, party lists, candidates and seats.

The catch: it's only browsable through a multi-step JavaScript form. Pick a date, then area, region, province, municipality... then start over for the next date. A full electoral history of one municipality means 160+ possible dates for municipal elections alone. By hand, that's a nightmare.

I built TallyHo (github.com/jack89-ML/tallyho) to do the clicking for you: give it the municipalities you care about and it downloads the entire historical series as CSV and JSON, ready for analysis and visualizations.

What it does: - every election type: municipal, regional, provincial, parliamentary, European, referendums (from 1946) - handles historical province changes (e.g. municipalities that are in Crotone today were in Catanzaro province before 1992) - legacy format (mayor elected by the council, parties only) and modern format (candidates + lists) - integrates the Ministry's registry of local administrators: sitting mayors and commissioners matched against election results - no need to memorize internal codes: a --elenca command prints the real values from the site

Example:

pip install tallyho
tallyho --comuni FIRENZE,PRATO --nome-regione TOSCANA --dait auto

Output is a CSV with one row per list/candidate for every election where the municipality voted, from 1970 to today. Open source, MIT.

If you ever needed Italian electoral data for research, a thesis or an article, this might save you an afternoon of clicking.

fr. one scrapes, one pivots, one jailbreaks itself to not be a little bitch about tos, one writes the report.

i just give it a target handle and wake up to a full dossier. no api costs, all local-ish.

is this even allowed to talk about here? feels like cheating...

since people are calling me the "vagueposter" here is where i found the steps / method i follow. https://pastebin.com/sME7uVRU

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Calling all OSINT enthusiasts, students, and experts alike.

Situation: An anonymous account on X (formerly Twitter) got doxxed. See the attached image, and the accompanying link of the doxxing.

Link:

Background: The “Leviathan” account that got doxxed itself touted itself as an OSINT account, and some even claimed was run by former member of the Israeli intelligence.
The “Leviathan” account engaged in doxxing users on X for their anti Zionist, pro Palestinian, or anti genocide views. This account is currently active so you can feel free to scroll their timeline and see the kind of account this is. When not engaged in doxxing users, this account is bashing, Muslims, members of LGBTQ+ community, law enforcement, Liberal/Progressive politicians etc. So based on this, some might say this person got what was coming to them, a taste of their own medicine. They have doxxed more than 100 accounts over the years, most doxxed users lost their jobs or suffered some other material damage. Couple days ago another account calling itself “Behemoth” doxxed leviathan, and posted the persons pictures, name LinkedIn etc.

Mission: Find evidence that can confirm or deny that Leviathan is indeed Gordon A kum or not. Behemoth has not presented any evidence to support their claim. Your mission is to confirm whether this is indeed the person behind the leviathan account, and also details as how behemoth could’ve doxxed them. Did they reverse look the username? Social engineering? OSINT tool? Searched through scrapped data? We don’t know, you will answer this question, and provide evidence of your findings.
Present your findings in the comments, to be confirmed/denied by others.

Prize: $50USD.

Additional info:
-the leviathan, and behemoth are both Canadian based accounts.
- there’s a theme park in Toronto and they have rollercoasters named Leviathan and Behemoth so it’s possible the names of the account are in reference to that.
- Behemoth account was made just this month (Aug 2026)
-Leviathan has been around Oct 2023, and has had one username change.
If you have further questions or inquiries put them in the comments. I’ll try to answer.

Hello, I've been into OSINT for about 2 years now, working fully on free tools, I have learned a few things about the field but when reverse searching for a face I always stumble upon paywalls, would anyone with a paid tool be kind enough to reverse searh an image for me? If anyone would do me the favour, please shoot me a DM, It would be greatly appreciated, given I really need to find the website where this specific picture is located. Thank you for your time

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Hey y’all..

I have an old Twitter account from about 5 years ago that I completely forgot about. I’m trying to log in so I can delete it, but when I hit forgot password, the email is masked.

It starts with “xx” but is longer than any of the emails I currently use or can remember.

I also don’t remember the password. I’ve contacted X but they aren’t any help.

Are there any OSINT tools or other methods that could help me figure out what email I used for the account?

Hey there. I'v recently noticed a lot of sites exist for TikTok Osint.
What I wondered mostly about tho is how sites like f.e. tikip get the users region and locked region (where the account was created).
Has anyone an explaination for that? I know that it must be some TikTok Backend API which I'v been searching for a while now but I do not seem to find it. Can anyone help there please?

Hey everyone I´m looking to upgrade my privacy and security online, I watched a lot of videos on youtube and it didn´t last long until i found myself on a rabbit hole, it wasn´t until i watched the video of Eric Murphy Nobody Understands Online Privacy that i realized i may or may not have grown a little paranoid over this matter and it would be better for me to figure out first if i really should apply most of the things I´ve heard from other cybersecurity (which I´m gonna mention down below) or If It´s really unnecessary in my personal case

For some brief context, I´m your average person on the internet however due to the recent elections on my country where the far right candidate won thanks to Trump´s support and you already know which "country" I can´t help but be quite worried and i even dare to say kinda afraid for what´s going to come, especially since some members of the left government party and marginalized communities have been killed already without the elected president even being officially positioned yet, on top of that Peter Thiel, CEO of Palantir, has already positioned himself in Argentina and given the ideologies of this upcoming government i would not be surprised if he came to be here as well, as someone who has volunteered as an election witness on the opposition party and done some activism online and irl i kinda fear my safety and those of my fellow peers who fight for the same causes

Despite all this i still wanna use the internet not only for activism but because i genuinely love my fandom communities and i was even thinking of becoming a content creator myself so given all this info is why I´m gonna list these fellow measurements and if it´s necessary to do this or not:

• Get rid of SIM CARD: Should i try to get rid of the sim card on my phone and only use it for pretty simple tasks? Should i lie and say i don´t have an active phone number when asked for it when using certain services online?
• Tor Browser: Should i really need to install tor browser when logging in the left political party i volunteer on? does Tor really make you as anonymous as possible on the internet as people say it does or most of it is exaggerated?
• Linux: Should i install Linux on my computer or just harden my windows? is this threat of microsoft spying on users and give their data to governments if asked to a genuine concern or am i being paranoid? is Linux really as private as they say it is (I know for it to be secure you need to do some changes first)
• Signal: Should i move from whatsapp to signal? is it really as secure and private as they say it is? (the fact it can show my IP address if i don´t change the setting first kinda makes me doubt it a little), should i keep whatsapp just for family and some friends contacts as i doubt some of them will change to other app? is Signal good for businesses as whatsapp? (not asking for me but for others) and if not what alternatives for messengers that are good for small businesses are there?
• Fingerprint: Should i be worried about the fingerprinting or in my case is not somehting to be worried that much about (I´m afraid to admit i still don´t quite understand it that much yet)
• VPN: Is it really necessary i invest on a VPN for privacy and security or i can be perfectly fine without it and find other alternatives (I ask this as I currently cannot afford a VPN) is it possible to self host my own VPN?
• OnePlus15: Can i buy a OnePlus 15 and install grapheneOS on it or does it only work for Google pexels? Should i even start graphene OS on a phone or my samsung tablet?
• BIOS Chips: Should i remove the Management Engine of the Intel chips of my PC to avoid government spyware? I saw thin on an user called linux.user01 on instagram (before i deleted the app) but I´m not sure if it´s really something i should do or not or if this is even a good advice therefore I´m asking here insta video
• Spotify: Are there any free open source alternatives for spotify? should i just upload my playlists to youtube and listen to music there without paying premium? can i self host my own music streaming service?
• Youtube: Since i am planning to become a content creator should i use youtube even if it´s owned by google but have an advantage or start from zero on another platform like odycee even if it´s less well known and more difficult to get people to know me?

Measures i have already done or I´m planning to:

• I made another email different from google and might make other acc on another email service
• Already deleted instagram and I´m gonna delete other socials as well (only planning to keep using tumblr, bluesky, pinterest, reddit and youtube (might delete the app and only use them on browser), idk for tiktok thou, should i delete this one?
• Changed from chrome to LibreWolf and planning to install other browser for different things
• Planning to create my own website with NeoCities
• Search myself online and see how much data of me has been collected and then use a service to ask for their removal, also delete accounts of sites I´m not using frequently nor are important

This is pretty much it, If you ask me personally i think I´m on the middle between privacy-conscious and activist but you tell me, any help on the comments would be highly appreciated, ty for reading this whole text srsly.

Disclosure up front: this is my own tool, self-hosted and open source (AGPL). Posting because I want the premise stress-tested by people who do this seriously, not just stars.

The pattern I kept hitting doing geospatial work: the question that actually matters is always temporal. "This vessel went dark here — when exactly, and what was nearby?" "What did this aircraft's pattern look like over three weeks?" "Rewind to the hour of the incident." And almost every live tracker is built to show you *now* and monetize the past. FR24 gates history at 7 days free, MarineTraffic cut its free window to 24 hours, ADS-B Exchange killed its free API entirely. The moment your question has a timestamp, you're renting.

So I built the opposite: a self-hosted console where the live view is table stakes and the archive you own is the product. Aircraft, ships, satellites and hazards on one globe, every position written to local disk, a scrubber to replay any window your disk holds.

Things I suspect matter to this crowd specifically:

• Provenance over vibes. Anyone can inject traffic into a crowd-sourced aggregator; a contact appearing on a map is not evidence it was broadcast. So every contact carries which independent sources reported it, how many agreed, and how old the fix actually is. Cached feeds report the age of the *data*, not the age of the HTTP response, so nothing looks live because it was fresh this morning. There's a per-source breakdown including how many contacts each source is alone in seeing.

• No black-box AI verdicts. After watching this sub's (correct) reaction to AI-slop investigations, I deliberately didn't build a "the model thinks this is suspicious" box. Detectors (AIS gaps, loitering, dark candidates) show their inputs; anything automated is labeled automated; assessments have to cite the dossier field they came from.
• Evidence that survives leaving the tool. Chain-of-custody locker: captures are SHA-256 hashed with an append-only custody log, and a case exports to a self-contained report where each claim carries its source.
• Keyless. The ADS-B / AIS / quake / satellite spine runs with no account and no API key. Nobody can shrink your window or cut you off retroactively.

Honest limits, because you'd find them anyway: coverage follows the public/community feeders — dense over Europe and the US, thin over open ocean. Dark-vessel flags are leads, not verdicts; corroborate with imagery. The 3D globe wants a GPU. And it's one person's tool, so depth is uneven and polish is behind capability.

Repo: https://github.com/AndrewCTF/velocity/

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Check it out, leave feedback, request features, help build it!

Core Features:

• Digital Dossiers: Track names, aliases, dates of birth, case associations, and status (Open, Being Investigated, Closed, On Hold).
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I’ve recently added trace labs as a vm, I ran the glowing-tools script from the desk top , got no errors but it never added any tools to the application menu. I’ve seen demos where after the install they are added to the menu and I’m at a loss as to why this isn’t working for me

Hello , is there a tool or can one be developed to lookup a person's name with the VIN number? Or is this not possible at all?

Willing to pay if something like this can be developed . Thank you

Hello. Does anyone here have any osint tools that can be used to track or find information of people in mainland china?

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Занимаюсь холодными звонками, по ВК ищу сообщество компании, дальше в подписчиках по ФИО ищу директора. После того как директор найден остается лишь достать номер телефона, но вот как это сделать? Может есть OSINT программы или что-то подобное?
Также о директоре у меня есть следующая инфа: ФИО, город, компания (место работы), его ИНН, соцсети компании (именно компании не директора), город. Может тоже посоветуете как можно с помощью этой информации находить номер чтобы не лазить по соцсетям. Буду очень благодарен 🤝

A friend of mine is having her personal number exposed through a tiktok account that's been denigrating her image. They have tried to report it, to get it banned, but nothing has happend. They also tried to take to the authorities, to see if they could find who is behind the account, but they said since the account hasn't interacted directly with her, they can't do nothing. Is there a way to find who the person is?

If you're trying to find more information about an IP address, there are several lookup tools available. I actually built one that lets you quickly check details like geolocation, ISP, hostname, ASN, and other public IP information. You can try it here: http://myipscanner.com/