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...
Human Intelligence
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...
Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Social platforms record behaviour, not truth: what was posted, when, by an account, to an audience. Social media intelligence keeps...
Human Intelligence (HUMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Human intelligence is the only discipline where the source can be harmed by your success. Every rule in the tradecraft...
Maritime Piracy: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Piracy risk is not a map. It is a product of monsoon windows, mothership range, freeboard and speed, and how...
Border Security & Migration: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A migration surge rarely begins at the border. It begins weeks earlier in a Telegram price list, a change in...
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...
Conflict & Humanitarian: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The first measurable sign of a coming famine is usually not hunger. It is a market price series breaking from...
Extremism & Radicalization: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Radicalisation is not a conveyor belt. It is a set of grievances, communities and content economies, and most of what...
Counter-Terrorism: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Attack planning leaves a logistics trail before it leaves an ideological one: a rented van, a chemical purchase, a reconnaissance...
Economic Espionage: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Industrial espionage rarely looks like a break-in. It looks like a departing researcher, a joint venture with an unusual data...
Forced Labour & Modern Slavery: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Forced labour is rarely announced by chains and locked doors. It shows up as recruitment fees, retained passports, and a...
Art & Antiquities Trafficking: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Looted antiquities rarely arrive with a forged export licence. They arrive with a vague provenance line, usually a private European...
Kidnap, Hostage & Extortion: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A kidnap-for-ransom market has a price list, a broker layer and a settlement rail. Treat it as an economy rather...
Gangs & Street Crime: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Retaliation after a stabbing is usually measured in days, sometimes hours. The intelligence question is not who did it but...
Child Protection: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The pattern that ends most sextortion cases is depressingly consistent: contact within hours, escalation within a day, and a payment...
Human Trafficking: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Very few trafficking victims arrive at a police station and describe themselves as trafficked. What arrives first is a wage...
Drug Trafficking: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A cluster of six overdoses in one town over a weekend is not a public health footnote. It is the...
Organized Crime: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Organised crime leaves paperwork. Not confessions, but a notary who appears in eleven unrelated share transfers, a haulage firm with...
Insider Threat: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The insider case that goes to court usually has a boring first indicator: an access request that was granted because...
Dark Web Intel: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Most of what is posted on a criminal forum is advertising. The intelligence value is not in the claim but...
