Nathan Patin @nathanpatin.bsky.social

@Bellingcat member || adjunct @Georgetown || digital investigations, infrastructure hunting, MENA, IOs, animal welfare, soccer

[Nathan Patin @nathanpatin.bsky.social @NathanPatin]

And another wonderful semester of ✨Hands-On Open-Source Investigation✨ is complete!

Huge thanks to @arawnsley and @badtakeblake for guest lecturing and sharing your expertise and experience w/ my students (and me)! It was a highlight of the course 🙌

[Nathan Patin @nathanpatin.bsky.social @NathanPatin]

@ShellyBradbury are you on Bluesky?

[Nathan Patin @nathanpatin.bsky.social @NathanPatin]

Moving over here:
https://t.co/DQIXoB6Aey

[Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc]

Striking open-source investigation by @lemondefr: security personnel for Biden (and wife), Trump (and wife), Harris, Pence, Putin, and Macron all used Strava, inadvertently exposing the whereabouts of the (vice) presidents they were tasked to protect. https://t.co/vEqo5282D0

[Dustin Volz @dnvolz]

SCOOP: Chinese hackers who tunneled deeply into U.S. telecommunications providers successfully captured audio recordings from people affiliated with BOTH the Harris and Trump campaigns as part of Beijing's far broader and very successful spying operation.

https://t.co/rLdfCDOQNC

[Anno Nemo @NemoAnno]

🧵Google Earth has updated some of it's satellite imagery from northern and central #Gaza to 14/19 October 2023
I'll share some locations below.
Eastern Shuja'iyya - 19 Oct. 2023
(31.490771, 34.478575)
1/

[Jane Lytvynenko @JaneLytv]

In 2020, authorities arrested armed men who drove a Hummer with a QAnon sticker and a US flag on it from Virginia to a ballot counting centre in Pennsylvania.

The rhetoric has gotten worse since then. It's grim but unsurprising that election officials are bracing themselves.

[Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places) @a_greenberg]

The DHS quietly warned this month that cybercriminals—particularly ransomware actors—are more likely than state-sponsored hackers to actually disrupt election infrastructure. A pretty disturbing benchmark from @lilyhnewman and @dell.bsky.social https://t.co/0RepCHaa0f

[Nathan Patin @nathanpatin.bsky.social @NathanPatin]

@PhilEdwardsInc Nice, appreciate you!

[Benjamin Strick @BenDoBrown]

Many have asked about @googleearth's new browser updates and how they work, so here’s a quick guide on timelapses, historical imagery and easy sharing with case studies on Amazon deforestation, conflict destruction and disaster damage.
https://t.co/x6ht52OhMg

[Nathan Patin @nathanpatin.bsky.social @NathanPatin]

@TheGoldOtter @saudq1978 Sure enough! ty for flagging

[Nathan Patin @nathanpatin.bsky.social @NathanPatin]

Malice or incompetence? The evergreen X game

[Nathan Patin @nathanpatin.bsky.social @NathanPatin]

Annnnnnd it's suspended again; well done @skirchy for highlighting

[Nathan Patin @nathanpatin.bsky.social @NathanPatin]

Malice or incompetence? The evergreen X game

[Nathan Patin @nathanpatin.bsky.social @NathanPatin]

The same cell phone number he used back in 2019 is still connected to his account, but the email address has since changed

[Nathan Patin @nathanpatin.bsky.social @NathanPatin]

His profile isn't showing up in search for me on mobile or desktop (the bottom account is not his)

[Georgia Gee @GeorgiaGee14]

Israel's NSO Group is lobbying Republicans hard to reverse its U.S. blacklisting, spending nearly $2 mil so far this year. On the same day lobbyists for NSO met with Texas Rep. Pete Sessions, they gave $1,000 to “Pete Sessions for Congress.” @theintercept

[Joseph Cox @josephfcox]

New: lawsuit says warrantless use of Flock surveillance cameras—those license plate reading cameras that are in towns big & small across US—is unconstitutional

"impossible for people to drive anywhere without having their movements tracked"

https://t.co/aOoRrs8Ra1

[profdeibert @RonDeibert]

NEW: (and very good news) 🇬🇧 UK-based dissident can sue Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 for alleged spyware, court rules https://t.co/DsmXowbauC

[Nathan Patin @nathanpatin.bsky.social @NathanPatin]

https://t.co/4LTDzeLTPO

[Bellingcat @bellingcat]

Video released by the IDF allowed the site where Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed to be geolocated to the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood in Rafah. By @JakeGodin for Bellingcat: https://t.co/OpqQJmymH8