The annual EU Disinfolab conference happened in Riga (Latvia) this year between the 8th of October and the 11th of october. The silence you hear after the EU disinfolab conference is still the EU Disinfolab conference…
Here are a collection of quotes we heard here and there. We will give it here for free, simply we won’t attribute them. It is a nice compromise between Open Source and respecting confidentiality. Or maybe it is just quotes we invented, who knows?
Revolution
It was not a civil war, it was a revolution for democracy, dignity and freedom
Did you know?
This is the country of the tallest woman in the world, it is also the most advanced E democracy and the birthplace of Isaiah Berlin.
Emotional
I had to hold back my tears
Useful OSINT trick 1)
I’m using AI to generate queries for search engines
The cyberattack was the real cyberattack
During the election in Bahrein, people received texts telling them that the elections had been delayed because of a cyberattack. But this was the cyberattack" (Ref here: https://www.arabnews.com/node/1410141/%7B%7B )
I think I’m in love 1)
- What do you use for your OSINT investigations?
- Oh mostly google docs and screenshots
Amber Plays Twilight
For those who don’t know, APT’s are State sponsored group of Hackers
OSINT Jungle
It’s a competitive market, there are a lot of OISNTers, sometimes dangerous…
Useful OSINT trick 2)
Input CSV, Output Analysis (this person is using Chat GPT to do analysis on word frequencies)
Doing the best we can
yes, yes, we are doing efforts to use the DISARM typology.
It’s not OSINT
For this we are doing CyberHumint…
Shodan Creativity
Track IP on Shodan ==> detect infrastructure ==> Search for matching machines
Useful OSINT trick 3)
Transcribe all the videos into text via “whisper” (Open AI) and look for keywords.
Artificial Thinking
They have a CLIP that they use to create a Treshold. It’s curation by statistics!
(In Laion 5B, images are labelled and coupled with words. The “CLIP” is an algorithm used to establish the confidence index between text and words, if a description is considered true or not. Under a certain threshold of that index, the image is simply discarded)
Artificial Love
What I see is that once you started to integrate AI, they will treat the images as if they were not real anymore and they don’t consider there is a human behind (on a discussion on Non Consensual Intimate Imagery)
Finally someone says it
Exposing actors IS costly for them!
Useful OSINT trick 4)
I use Mistral AI to summarize video transcripts,and then group them by semantic proximity
Rabbit holes, you know?
It all started as a fun project on the side of investigating QAnon
I think I’m in love 2)
- But what is the impact and the value of the investigation, do you have a confidence scale to evaluate the proofs?
– no, just my whole process can be replicated
Outrageous
I am provocative on purpose but isn’t OSINT just a moment of the Internet?
Anti-FIMI Activism
Oh you are against the notion of FIMI? That’s interesting I myself had trouble with this notion, please tell me more
Impactful
Online disinformation erases the civil / warriors dinsticintions and what allows the targeting of civilians and humanitarian workers
OpenAI doing attributions now?
Meta and OpenAI attributed it to Stoic, a company based in Israël (more on the story here)
Last Night
- Everybody is talking about it this morning but I still struggle to frame what happened last night
- Real live countering FIMI Karaoke?