Device / Advertising ID: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An advertising identifier was designed to be a resettable, privacy-preserving marketing token. In practice it became one of the most...
Device / Advertising ID
Social Profile: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A social profile is a persona's self-published intelligence report. The metadata around it is usually more truthful than anything written...
Physical Address: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A physical address is where the digital investigation touches the ground. It is also where thousands of shell companies quietly...
Phone Number: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A phone number is a globally routable identifier attached to a real contract and, increasingly, to every account a person...
Username / Handle: Data Point Intelligence Guide
People change platforms, phones and email providers. They almost never change the handle they picked at fifteen. That inertia is...
Email Address: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An email address is an account key, a routing instruction and a reputation record in one string. It is also...
Person / Name: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A name is the weakest identifier in intelligence work and the one most likely to end a career when handled...
Identity Intelligence (IDENT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Identity resolution fails in two directions and only one of them is visible. A missed link costs you the investigation;...
Transnational Repression: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A dissident's family is visited at home, an INTERPOL notice appears, and a spyware link arrives by messenger, all within...
Operational Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Investigations are compromised by their own footprint far more often than by adversary brilliance. A referrer header, a reused persona,...
