Intelligence & OSINT
Open-source intelligence, espionage, surveillance, and information warfare
123 episodes
#3929: How a $50 Strobe Reshapes Traffic
Trip boards and amber strobes let anyone command deference. The psychology and legality explained.
#3922: Visible Deterrence: Theater or Tactic?
Does visible armed presence prevent violence or escalate it? An analysis across protests and airports.
#3919: When Militants Want You to Watch Their Training
Hezbollah and Hamas don't hide their military drills from satellites. They broadcast them. Here's why.
#3909: What to Do When a Stranger Yells at You
A practical protocol for handling aggressive strangers on the street — based on real research.
#3897: The Mover's Paradox: Social Jiu-Jitsu for Urban Stealth
How to be invisible to security but unapproachable to everyone else using three layers of social engineering.
#3896: How to Become Unapproachable While Moving Boxes in Jerusalem
Three escalating layers to stay unapproachable while moving cargo in a city where everyone is curious about your boxes.
#3893: The Teddy Bear That Shut Down a Daycare
How Israel's 1979 wiretapping law made a camera-stuffed teddy bear legal — and what happens next.
#3860: Qatar's Gift Plane: Air Force One Security Risk?
A foreign government gave the U.S. a Boeing 747 for Air Force One. Is it a generous gift or a security nightmare?
#3845: Telegram’s Espionage Pipeline: How the IRGC Recruits Israelis
One Israeli spotted an IRGC recruitment channel on Telegram. He reported it. Then nothing.
#3844: Front Companies vs Shell Companies: What's the Real Difference?
Front companies have real employees and offices. Shell companies are just paper. Here's how to tell them apart.
#3843: Tracing the Grey Economy's Hidden Pipes
How journalists trace fraud from Tel Aviv boiler rooms to trafficking networks using public records and patience.
#3842: The Moving Scam That Holds Your Belongings Hostage
How a Tel Aviv call center runs interstate moving scams on Americans — and why it's still happening.
#3834: How Celebrities Hide Their Phone Numbers
The three-layer system of tech, legal, and social defenses that keeps celebrity phone numbers private.
#3784: The Caliphate's Paper Trail: How ISIS Built a State
Beyond the violence, ISIS built a functioning bureaucracy with tax forms, ministries, and municipal services. This is how.
#3780: How Open-Source Satellites Spot Missile Launches
Thermal satellite data you can access for free can detect missile plumes. Here's what that tells us about classified military capabilities.
#3779: How Consulting Became Spycraft's Perfect Cover
Why intelligence agencies love consulting and import-export as covers—and what it means for legitimate professionals.
#3778: How Ukraine's Trophy Lab Crowdsources Enemy Hardware Analysis
Ukraine's Ministry of Defence publishes full engineering data of captured Russian equipment online. No registration required.
#3777: Social Engineering Before Cybersecurity
Ancient Greeks, Cold War spies, and con artists all used social engineering long before Kevin Mitnick.
#3774: Smuggling Drones Into Iran: The IKEA Approach
How Israel reportedly built a covert drone base inside Iran using flat-pack components and front companies.
#3773: Mossad's Secret Influence Branch: 11-Year Photo Trap
A secret Mossad unit uses AI personas and decade-old photos to undermine Iran from within. One photograph took down a minister.
#3771: How Mossad Built a Fake Factory to Pager-Bomb Hezbollah
Mossad didn't just intercept pagers — they manufactured them from scratch, explosives included, through a multi-layer fake company network.
#3768: Testing Premises Before They Fail
How structured techniques and AI frameworks challenge assumptions in high-stakes scenarios before they become failures.
#3766: How Mossad Stole Iran's Nuclear Archive from a Warehouse
Inside the 2018 Mossad raid that seized Iran's nuclear archive from an air-gapped warehouse in Tehran.
#3763: How Iran Could Hide a Nuclear Stockpile
What if Iran's enriched uranium isn't at Natanz or Fordow — but split across dozens of hidden basements?