OPEN SOURCE
Series 1. Thesis: what is already public is enough to map most people and orgs, if you know the paths; every path has a close.
Each piece teaches a collection or exposure method in full (offense), then the matching defensive actions with equal weight (defense). Diagram-first. One idea per piece. Lawful open-source and public-records lane only. Worked examples use composite targets.
Pairs with the intelligence garden (08 Guides & Manuals and OSINT method notes) and with protective / OPSEC concepts on the tactics side.
Arc (planned)
| # | Piece | Focus | Atom | Post | Thread | Carousel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don’t Search Until the Lab Is Clean | OSINT infrastructure: host/guest, golden master, 2026 hypervisors | draft | final | draft | draft |
| 2 | Harden the Floor Before You Stand Up a Guest | Linux host baseline: FDE, telemetry, ClamAV process, vault, Ventoy | draft | final | draft | draft |
| 3 | People search engines and aggregator traps | Taxonomy, VPN blocks, premium deception | - | - | - | - |
| 4 | Secondary exposure | Partners, registries, associate leaks + family OPSEC close | - | - | - | - |
| 5 | Document recovery | filetype, cloud, OCR image resumes + hygiene close | - | - | - | - |
| 6 | Infrastructure leaks | Utility and rebate-style portals + monitoring close | - | - | - | - |
| 7 | Opt-out fatigue | Sister sites, platform deception, persistence | - | - | - | - |
Piece titles and order may shift at editorial cut; the offense/defense pair does not.
Cadence
Weekly when active: atom first, then Substack post (anchor), then X thread
and IG carousel from the same atom. Ships only at publish: true after
owner sign-off (see ../CONVENTIONS.md).
Production notes
- Style memory for this series: osint-style-guide.md (newbie steps, 2026 accuracy, host/guest rules, piece shape).
- Review path: owner uses the public Cloudflare site. Every OPEN SOURCE
post is
publish: trueon commit; pushmainwithout a second ask. - NotebookLM curriculum is intake, not ship shape: drop Bloom, keep tables and pivot flows, rewrite into the atom spine.
- Each piece needs at least one diagram (drawio atlas or interim mermaid).
- One action defaults to: run the matrix on yourself, fix the top leaks.