Academy

OSINT basics

• What open-source research is What the term covers, what it does not, and why the difference decides whether your work is usable. 2 lessons

Judging a source

• Judging a source before you believe it Who published it, why, when, and what would have to be true for it to be wrong. 1 lesson

Verification

• Verifying a claim Independent confirmation, what counts as independent, and the traps that look like corroboration. 2 lessons

Digital safety

• Working without exposing yourself What your own research leaks about you, and the habits that reduce it. 1 lesson

Investigation methodology

• How an enquiry is structured From a question you can answer to a conclusion somebody else can check. 1 lesson

Report writing

• Writing something somebody can use Separating what you found from what you concluded, so a reader can disagree with the second. 1 lesson

Handling material

Principles only. What makes material admissible is decided by each country's own law, and this association has no standing to define procedure for any force.

• Handling material so it stays usable Principles for keeping what you found in a state somebody else can rely on. 1 lesson

Privacy and ethics

• What may lawfully be looked at Where open-source work stops, and why the boundary is drawn where it is. 1 lesson

Vessels, companies, sanctions

• Vessels, companies and sanctions lists The three specialist registers, what each identifier means, and where each one misleads. 1 lesson

First aid

Reading, not certification. Nothing here replaces accredited first-aid training, and it must not be relied on in place of it.

• First aid: what the reading covers Educational material only. It does not replace accredited first-aid training and must not be used in its place. 1 lesson