OSINT Tips: Remembering historic social networking sites

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OSINT Tips: Remembering historic social networking sites

In a series of tips about how to use open source intelligence for crime investigations, Neil Smith reminds officers how important old social networking sites can be for progressing cases.

Date - 24th February 2014
By - Neil Smith

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Firstly my apologies for the slight break in these articles but I was ill for a few weeks and was then tied up with some courses for a group of people in the Home Office. So going alphabetically from the favorites page of our website at...

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