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The Benefits of Sock Puppets in Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
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A Sock Puppet is fake persona, or an alternative online identity used to collect and investigate open-source information on a target.
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The Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Cycle
Open-source intelligence, or OSINT, refers to the process of collecting information from public and legal data sources to serve a specific function. Some open sources components might include social media, videos, blogs, news, and the web (surface, Deep and Dark Web).