CONTENTS
Introduction: “What Can Open Source Intelligence Do For Me?”
What to expect from the rest of this book
Web browsers – the first steps
Search engines – meta search engines
(Slightly below) the Surface Web
Specialist web investigation tools
Suggested search and the knowledge of the crowd
The Deep Web and social media technology
Platform-specific search tools
The importance of identity online
What is the Dark Web and where did it come from?
The importance of The Onion Router (TOR) to the Dark Web
The .onion pseudo-Top Level Domain
So much for the theory – now what?
Tor2web and the growth of the ‘Borderlands’
Chapter 4: Internet Security for the Smart Investigator
Security: two brief principles
Creating a dedicated research infrastructure
Giving away your identity on the Internet
Going underground – Virtual Private Networks
Advanced concepts of surveillance and detection
Leaving no trace (mitigating scenario 2):
Counterintelligence within OSINT
Smart security – using the appropriate solution at the appropriate time