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Nitish Chandan

@nitishchandan.bsky.social

Nostalgia brought me here. Currently doing OSINT @Maltego, prev: Twitter. On my feed you're likely to find Music, Food and a whole lot of geek on the technology, law, policy and society nexus.

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Nitish Chandan @nitishchandan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

* usage of one specific username or alias on all the csam/illegal content platforms (which they hope keeps them anonymous)..but * other stolen data that points to their Amazon accounts, facebook accounts etc. which solves for law enforcement on a whole different level.

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Nitish Chandan @nitishchandan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

3. Pivot to profiling— when you combine logs with other data, you are often able to find more details about an individual or the network. In this example that I looked into, for example, an obvious trend shows-

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Nitish Chandan @nitishchandan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

2. Pivot to what other websites/services have been accessedby the user—This will paint a complete picture of what other services have been accessed. Why? It helps understand what may be the other places where offenders (consumers or producers) access content

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Nitish Chandan @nitishchandan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

1. Start with the infostealer infra— will largely vary but on most ocassion, it gives you insights into the kind of urls that have been visited. Searching for any known csam platform in logs can be helpful at this stage. darkweb, clearnet- doesn't matter

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Nitish Chandan @nitishchandan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Came across this interesting post on substack about profiling #CSAM offenders with the help of data from infostealers. Wanted to try it out and the insights are incredible. There's a great amount of insights to be translated for use in other contexts ..Thread

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Nitish Chandan @nitishchandan.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

- Left pane indicates each of the trends and filters of all of the data from the suspect network of accounts - Green nodes indicate trends and black ones indicate the users and associations. All of the trends are disparate and have no connection with each other except the users that started them.

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Nitish Chandan @nitishchandan.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Without deeper investment in Trust and Safety, these networks could manipulate public opinion—and even incite violence—for the sake of profit.

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Nitish Chandan @nitishchandan.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

It’s unsettling to see major companies exploiting this access for profit or popularity. Even more troubling is platforms ignoring basic signals of manipulation. I'm sure that these accounts are in violation of policies

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Nitish Chandan @nitishchandan.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

During a recent investigation, I uncovered a vast network of for-hire Twitter accounts in India that play a pivotal role in launching trends. These accounts fuel everything from harmless e-commerce promotions to more insidious political campaigns designed to stir up divisive sentiment.

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Nitish Chandan @nitishchandan.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

What's trending, anyway? Thread about for-hire accounts on Twitter/X

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David Sullivan @davidsullivan.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Good news on freedom of expression litigation, India edition: Thanks to tireless efforts by @internetfreedom.bsky.social, a provision in India's amended IT rules that allowed the government to create its own "fact-check unit" to order content takedowns was ruled unconstitutional!

timeline of litigation challenging the constitutionality of the Fact-Check United under India's amended IT Act.

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David Sullivan @davidsullivan.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

i made a #trustandsafety starter pack! Please lmk if you would like to be added and/or suggest folks I've missed!

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