I watched the N-SPE program "Digital Hunter: Chasing a Mysterious Internet Research Group".

This is a documentary program on "Open Source Investigations", which uses only publicly available information (Open Source) to hunt down governments and criminal groups.

- Identified the location of the massacre and the people who took part in it from the video of an unknown source.

- identified "quarantine facilities", that Chinese Government Calls for "Vocational Training and Educational Facilities for Anti-Terrorism" - Looking at buildings in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, analyzing satellite images

- Identified the existence of a secret base placed by the US government in the deserts of the Middle East.

- Identified suspects, including senior and former members of the Russian government's intelligence community, in the case of Russia's involvement in the downing of the Malaysian airliner.

These are the result of their efforts.

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Although it is far from this scale and results, I have also conducted psychological analysis of people who were victims of delays due to personal injury by analyzing Twitter text.

As a result, I found out some interesting things.

For example, there were many retweets about the accident, but surprisingly few tweets expressing their own opinions.

"I see, it's natural to 'let others say what's hard to say, without saying it ourselves"

I was impressed.

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Open source alone can tell you quite a lot about what is going on.

Moreover, equipment costs (x time resources) are surprisingly low.

"Their only weapon is a laptop computer"

This phrase is also quite catchy.

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I've been thinking about my own school days and wondering, 'Why couldn't I have taken this approach back then?'

Well, back then, there was no Internet, and there may not have been a FOIA request, but...

"I could hunt down the powers that be and the authorities with nothing but data and numbers."

As a science student... I am a little depressed.

Well, maybe it's because of those repercussions that I'm continuing with this series.