OSINT Tips: The investigative benefit of anonymisers

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OSINT Tips: The investigative benefit of anonymisers

In the first article of a new series of tips about how to use open source intelligence for crime investigation, Neil Smith talks about the use of anonymisers to hide traces of online activity.

Date - 22nd July 2013
By - Neil Smith

As an investigative researcher I do all of my enquiries on-line, accessing what is called Open Source Intelligence or OSINT. I legally access information from a wide variety of on-line sources and then provide this to my clients, who range from...

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