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Serge Courrier

@secou.bsky.social
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🔴 Consultant, formateur 🔴 Je vous aide à améliorer vos processus de veille et d'investigation via Internet (OSINT) | Ex @secou sur Twitter

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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 10h
[ #OSINT #OPSEC #HUMINT ] Inside Russia's Recruiting Machine with AI & OSINT (by @henkvaness.bsky.social): www.digitaldigging.org/p/inside-the...
digitaldigging.org
Inside Russia's Recruiting Machine with AI & OSINT
“New destination: Ivanovo. €15,000 per signature. Girls accepted for drone units!”
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
[ #REDDIT #RSS ] Reddit kills RSS feeds on November 13 to block AI korben.info/en/reddit-ki...
korben.info
Reddit kills RSS feeds on November 13 to block AI - Korben
Reddit will shut down its RSS feeds on November 13, then cut off its public API in March 2027, and the company justifies both decisions with the same ...
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
[ #OPSEC #FINGERPRINTING #PRIVACY ] Au-delà du seul cas de fingerprinting découvert chez Alibaba, un petit point sur les techniques de fingerprinting et les (maigres) protections mises en place par Firefox et surtout Brave: incyber.org/article/fing...
incyber.org
Fingerprinting audio : Alibaba rattrapé par un casque Bluetooth - INCYBER NEWS
L’empreinte sonore exploite la manière dont un ordinateur traite un signal inaudible pour enrichir l’identification d’un navigateur, sans cookie ni fichier déposé. L’affaire AliExpress, révélée durant...
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tools used to investigate: Osavul, Meta Content Library and Meltwater for social media posts. Erebus Toolkit for Telegram scraping and analysis.
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
[ #DISINFORMATION ] Russia banned Armenian tomatoes. A fake Politico story blamed Europe (by @dfrlab.bsky.social): dfrlab.org/2026/09/29/r...
dfrlab.org
Russia banned Armenian tomatoes. A fake Politico story blamed Europe
A fabricated claim reached eighteen languages in 29 hours, pushed by coordinated actors.
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
[ #IMAGEANALYSIS ] "No Exact Matches Found" On the Pitfalls of Reverse Image Search in the Age of AI www.osintcombine.com/post/no-exac...
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
[ #OSINT ] Inteltechniques is now on Bluesky (by @inteltechniques.com):
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
[ #PRIVACY ] ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-now-...
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
[ #SOCMINT ] Two Years Ago, Meta Killed CrowdTangle. Can a New AI Tool [Arbiter] Fill the Void? (bh @gijn.org): gijn.org/stories/can-... #osint
gijn.org
Two Years Ago, Meta Killed CrowdTangle. Can a New AI Tool Fill the Void?
A new crop of AI-powered tools is trying to fill the void left by CrowdTangle, which let journalists tack how content spread across Facebook and Instagram. Arbiter is one of the projects leading the w...
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
[ #IMINT ] GeoWhisperer bêta It shows the history of a place, in pictures, in words, and in a short film built from what's changed. (by @henkvaness.bsky.social): www.digitaldigging.org/p/introducin...
digitaldigging.org
Introducing: Geo Whisperer Beta
Every place has a before
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
[ #DISINFORMATION ] Storm-1516 operation targets the Baltic states (by @dfrlab.bsky.social): dfrlab.org/2026/09/17/s...
dfrlab.org
Storm-1516 operation targets the Baltic states
Operation publicly attributed to Russia’s military intelligence attempts to undermine international trust in the Baltic states’ ability to defend itself and support Ukraine.
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Alexandre HORN @alexandrehrn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🔴 Enquête vidéo : officiellement la Chine ne fournit aucune arme à la Russie ni à l’Ukraine. Mais @lemonde.fr révèle que Pékin est le principal fournisseur de composants des millions de drones du conflit. Y compris à des entreprises russes impliquées dans de possibles crimes de guerre
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Soxoj @soxoj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🕵️ Nobody's impressed by OSINT on the big platforms anymore: plenty of tools do that. The hard part is everything else. Maigret 0.6.6 now checks almost 6K sites, and nearly all the new ones are niche forums, discussion boards and wikis 🔍 Open source, MIT, runs locally 👉 soxoj.com/maigret-r066-bsky
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Jules @juleswp.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Comment détecter un article généré par IA sur Wikipédia ? C'est désormais notre lot quotidien. 🧵 Un petit fil, à partir d'un exemple concret.
Aperçu d'un article sur Blaise Agresti.

« Blaise Agresti, né le 20 janvier 1971, est un officier supérieur de la Gendarmerie nationale (colonel)[1], guide de haute montagne, auteur et dirigeant d'entreprise français. Spécialiste du secours en montagne et du commandement en situation d'urgence[2], il a dirigé le Peloton de gendarmerie de haute montagne (PGHM) de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc ainsi que le Centre national d'instruction de ski et d'alpinisme de la gendarmerie (CNISAG)[3]. »
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
[ #CARTOGRAPHIE ] Je découvre l'offre de cartographies infracommunales de l'Insee : www.insee.fr/fr/outil-int...
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
[ #OSINT #DEEPFAKES ] The Future of Visual Investigations, If We Can’t Trust Our Eyes (by @columjournreview.bsky.social): www.cjr.org/feature/the-... #visualinvestigation
cjr.org
The future of visual investigations, if we can’t trust our eyes.
Journalists and other experts tell us how, in the age of AI, technology is transforming the work of visual forensics. “We might have to be a little bit more imaginative,” Emily Tripp, of Airwars, says...
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
[ #IMINT ] Comme Vantor, Copernicus propose des images satellites hautes résolutions gratuites autour de catastrophes naturelles mapping.emergency.copernicus.eu Repéré dans le dernier OSINT Field Notes de Benjamin Strick osintfieldnotes.substack.com/p/osint-fiel...
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
[ #DISINFORMATION ] Monetized Slopaganda Social Media Monetization Is Financing an Industry of AI Political Clickbait and Deepfakes [in France, Germany, Italy, US...] (a Reset Tech report, 119 pp) www.reset.tech/resources/mo...
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
[ #PRIVACY ] Doxxing Safety Pt I: Prevention and Footprint Management (by @eff.org): www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... #OSINT #doxxing
eff.org
Doxxing Safety Pt I: Prevention and Footprint Management
Doxxing is the deliberate disclosure of personal information in order to bully, harass, intimidate, or instigate a chain of harms against someone. It's a tricky thing to protect against when the jerk ...
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
[ #OSINT ] Podcast transcripts are an untapped research goldmine: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/podcast-tr...
cardcatalogforlife.substack.com
Podcast transcripts are an untapped research goldmine.
How to turn the expert testimony in any podcast into searchable, citable text.
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Forensic analysis of the genera- tion pipeline behind a recent AI-driven influence campaign (Storm-1516/CopyCop campaign disclosed by Viginum and Insikt Group in 2025)
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
[ #FIMI #PROPAGANDA ] "Propaganda Forensics: Recovering the Generation Pipeline of an Al-Driven Influence Campaign" #STORM1516: arxiv.org/html/2608.15... #disinformation
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Un site "proof of concept" qui ressemble à un live journalistique mais que l'on voit également émerger comme nouveau type de livrable interne lié à des investigations/études/veilles... sans faire beaucoup de cas de la confidentialité. L'annonce sur Linkedin www.linkedin.com/posts/dutch-...
linkedin.com
There was a horrific incident in the city of Overasselt (Netherlands) that hit the global news yesterday. It is a drugs cartel related case. I've created a Dossier on this that will track this cas...
There was a horrific incident in the city of Overasselt (Netherlands) that hit the global news yesterday. It is a drugs cartel related case. I've created a Dossier on this that will track this case an...
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
[ #OSINT ] Surprenant objet "OSINT" tant dans sa nature que dans sa réalisation. Nico Dekens ( @dutchosintguy.bsky.social ) a créé et met à jour un site (généré a priori via Perplexity) autour d'une fusillade qui a eu lieu le 1er septembre en Hollande. Le site : dossier-overasselt.pplx.app
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LaLIST | CNRS-INIST @inistlalist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Billet : OpenAlex : une alternative ouverte pour vos recherches bibliographiques lalist.inist.fr/billet-opena...
lalist.inist.fr
Billet : OpenAlex : une alternative ouverte pour vos recherches bibliographiques
OpenAlex propose une approche ouverte de la recherche bibliographique et permet d’explorer un vaste ensemble de publications scientifiques. L’Inist-CNRS propose 2 webinaires pour découvrir l’outil …
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ADBS @adbs-infodoc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
L’adbs vous souhaite une très bonne rentrée 2026-2027 à tou·tes ! 💃🕺🏼 #catalogue #formation #infodoc #IA #veille #skill #compétence #2027 #qualiopi
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
[ #OSINT #GEOINT ] Mapping the 2026 Nepal Floods with Free High-Resolution Satellite Imagery A good introduction to what Geolibre can do, in this case when it comes to comparing satellite images. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDO1...
youtube.com
Mapping the 2026 Nepal Floods with Free High-Resolution Satellite Imagery
YouTube video by Open Geospatial Solutions
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Dutch_OsintGuy @dutchosintguy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New blog: AI can read instructions you never saw. That makes prompt injection an OSINT problem. Learn how to spot it in webpages, PDFs and spreadsheets. Includes a CTF lab. www.dutchosintguy.com/post/when-th...
dutchosintguy.com
When the Source Attacks Back: Prompt Injection Is Coming for OSINT
AI can help investigators move faster. It can also be manipulated by the sources it reads. This practical guide shows how prompt injection enters OSINT workflows, how to detect hidden instructions in ...
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Vincent Granier @vincentgranier.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026
"(...) l’avocat d’affaires Gaspard de Monclin annonce se séparer des 35 journalistes permanents employés par le titre (sur un total de 54 salariés, dont 10 seulement seraient maintenus), et prévoit un recours massif à l’intelligence artificielle pour publier des contenus."
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 25/08/2026
A brilliant reporting. Bonus: a guide on how to react and further investigate if you encounter similar assets as those uncovered by the report.
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Jules Le Hénand @juleslh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Fin de partie pour nitter.net et xcancel.com qui permettaient d’accéder aux contenus de X, sans pistage ni publicité.
Page d’accueil de Nitter :

Cease and desist
On 24 August 2026 cease and desist letters have been sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository.
nitter.net is offline and development has stopped for the time being. I'm seeking legal advice and won't be commenting further on the specific for now.
Thank you to everyone who used, hosted, packaged, donated and contributed to Nitter over the past seven years.
- zedeus, 25 August 2026Page d’accueil de XCancel :

On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.
The service XCancel is stopped until further notice.
We are seeking legal advice and won't share more details for now.
Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel.
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
[ #OSINT #AI #ANALYSIS ] Leveraging AI Triage in OSINT: Pragmatic Approaches to Large Datasets (by OSINT Combine. June 2026): www.osintcombine.com/post/leverag...
osintcombine.com
Leveraging AI Triage in OSINT: Pragmatic Approaches to Large Datasets - OSINT Combine
Most teams do not have a shortage of data; quite the opposite. As a result, important content may go unread, time gets spent on low-value items, and there is a risk that decisions will be based on par...
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Hervé Letoqueux @herve.checkfirst.network · 24/08/2026
AliExpress creates two running WebAudio graphs from heavily obfuscated Alibaba security scripts for fingerprinting purposes. blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/alie... news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4937...
blog.laserphile.com
AliExpress webpage keeping multipoint Bluetooth headphones active with WebAudio fingerprinting
Recently I ran into a strange problem with my Bluetooth headphones. They support multipoint Bluetooth audio, so they can be connected to my ...
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Cyber Detective @cybdetective.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
100+ World Intelligence MCP Servers Financial Markets Economic Conflict & Security Military & Defense Maritime Geospatial Datasets Intelligence Analysis Aviation Social & Sanctions Country Intelligence Traffic github.com/marc-shade/w... #geoint
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
[ #MONITORING #RSS ] Changes to the PolitePaul (ex-politepol) Free Plan
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
[ #LEAKS #OSINT ] Utilisation des leaks dans l’OSINT : et si on se posait la mauvaise question ? (par @degun.eu) : ozdegun.substack.com/p/utilisatio...
ozdegun.substack.com
Utilisation des leaks dans l’OSINT : et si on se posait la mauvaise question ?
(ou comment on recrute des auxiliaires de justice chez les cybercriminels)
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
[ #IMINT ] Google Street View comes all over Kosovo blog.google/products-and... #OSINT
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Ça promet !
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
[ #GOOGLEEARTH ] A mi chemin entre nouveaux outils de désinfo et d'analyse : les nouvelles fonctions de Google Earth blog.google/products-and...
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
[ #DISINFORMATION #FIMI ] Uncovering the digital infrastructure behind Russian interference in Armenian elections (by @dfrlab.bsky.social): dfrlab.org/2026/07/29/u...
dfrlab.org
Uncovering the digital infrastructure behind Russian interference in Armenian elections
How Russia's Storm-1516 reached millions of social media users with fabricated stories about Armenia.
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
[ #OSINT #AI ] AI Can Triage Evidence. It Still Cannot Verify the Story Alone What BBC Eye’s Haystack system teaches OSINT teams about agents, social media evidence and human review. (by ProjectOSINT) projectosint.com/ai-assisted-...
projectosint.com
AI-Assisted OSINT: What BBC Eye's Haystack Teaches Investigators
A ProjectOSINT workflow on AI-assisted OSINT, using BBC Eye's Haystack system to explain triage, social media evidence, human
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Tu développeras un peu ☺️ ?
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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Wikipedia is often held as a leader in how a community comes together to make difficult epistemological decisions. This article examines the difficulty they faced when deciding to create a timely policy about AI. Some great work looking at Wikipedia policy here. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Screenshot of the article "Failed comprehensiveness, successful minimalism: Wikipedia’s 3-year struggle to govern AI-generated content (2022–2025)"
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Avec même quelques comptes Linkedin associés 😡
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Serge Courrier @secou.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
J'imagine qu'il va y avoir du boulot 🥺 fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A...
fr.wikipedia.org
Recherche de liens externes — Wikipédia
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Jules @juleswp.eurosky.social · 17/07/2026
C'est le sort qui attend les journaux qui se débarrassent de leurs journalistes / recourent massivement à l'IAg : être écartés de Wikipédia.
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DJ "Jo" NoneYa 🟧 @djnoneya.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Apple and Google ordered to purge 'nudify' apps from App Stores: In letters sent to Apple and Google, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said that both companies have long been aware that they are hosting apps in violation of state law
techcrunch.com
Apple and Google ordered to purge 'nudify' apps from App Stores | TechCrunch
In letters sent to Apple and Google, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said that both companies have long been aware that they are hosting apps in violation of state law.
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@manhack @manhack.net · 08/07/2026
En octobre, Médiamétrie avait établi que 25 % des Français visitaient chaque mois les ~250 plus gros sites d'infos générés par IA. Ils sont désormais... 40 % (soit + 60 % !). Notre extension flaggue désormais plus de 15 000 sites d'infos GenAI @next.ink next.ink/246263/pres-...
next.ink
Près de 40 % des Français visitent chaque mois des sites d’info générés par IA
Le premier observatoire français de l’audience des sites GenAI, établi par Médiamétrie en octobre 2025, avait établi que près de 25 % des Français y…
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Thierry Noisette @tnoisette.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
L'IA a un impact majeur sur Wikipédia, son usage croissant entraînant une chute de la lecture (humaine) tandis que les bots des IA encombrent sa bande passante. Usages, contenus, menaces... @reminoyon.bsky.social et moi avons interviewé Rémy Gerbet, directeur exécutif de @wikimedia.fr.web.brid.gy
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