About OSINT Yourself

OSINT Yourself is an education and tools-directory site for open-source intelligence (OSINT) — the practice of gathering information from publicly available sources.

The site has three parts: Teach explains how OSINT techniques actually work, Warn helps people understand what their own digital footprint looks like from the outside, and the tools directory catalogues the software and services that do this work. Each tool carries a cost tier, is flagged where it is dual-use, and has a privacy note where one applies.

The tools directory is organised into 12 categories, and each tool's page shows when its entry was last checked, where that date is recorded. Learn covers what OSINT is, how the main techniques work, and the ethics around using them. Protect lets you run the same techniques on yourself: a breach check, a findability checklist, and a data-broker removal directory with per-broker opt-out guides. How entries are added and checked is described on the methodology page.

Some descriptions on this site were first drafted with an AI model. Machine-drafted text is held back from tool pages until it has been reviewed, and the methodology page explains how each description is labelled.

Listing a tool in the directory is not an endorsement of any particular use of it. Many OSINT tools are genuinely dual-use: the same capability that helps a journalist verify a claim or a security researcher map an attack surface can also help someone stalk or harass another person. Dual-use tools carry a Dual-use flag on their own page and in the tools, category, tag and home-page listings.

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