// Offense

Explore OSINT

One username. Every platform it touches. That's the pivot you learn to work.

OSINT looks like googling until you find something. It isn't. It's a discipline with a cycle — plan, collect, process, analyze, disseminate — and most beginners skip straight to collection, drown in tabs, and call the mess "intelligence." Nugget starts you at the part everyone skips: writing down what question you're actually answering before you touch a search bar.

From there the sessions get concrete. Nugget lays out a photo on the whiteboard and has you separate the generic background from the details that actually pin a location — a lamppost style, a road marking, a shadow angle worth running through SunCalc. Or it maps a single leaked username and walks you through what it would take to confirm two accounts belong to the same person, not just assume it because the handle matches.

It also won't let you skip the parts that feel like paperwork. Chain of custody, source triangulation, what GDPR actually restricts even when the data is sitting in public view — these show up early, not as an afterthought once you're "advanced." The habit Nugget is building isn't tool fluency. It's knowing why one confirmed source beats three unverified ones, every time.

// What a session feels like

You bring the questions. Nugget asks the next one.

  • Nugget places a street-scene photo on the whiteboard with no metadata attached and asks you to name the one object in it that's actually location-specific — not the sky, not the car, the thing that narrows the search.
  • You paste a single email address into the terminal and Nugget has you reason through what Holehe's results would mean before running anything: which hits are proof of an account, which are just "no error thrown."
  • Nugget sketches a partial digital-footprint map — three accounts, one shared photo — and pushes you to explain what still needs a second source before you'd call any of it confirmed.

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