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53 episodes
#5196: How Shadow Fleet Tankers Get Caught
Transponder gaps, paired blackouts, and satellite fingerprinting — how analysts actually catch sanctioned oil moving at sea.
#5177: The JCB Spy That Probably Doesn't Exist
Construction spying is real — but the documented cases are ex-employees with live logins and spy pens in bid rooms, not paid excavator operators.
#5151: Why Dry Heat Is a Different Animal
Dry heat at 45°C can be survivable while humid 35°C kills. The physics of sweat, the limits of acclimatization, and what Bedouin trackers see in sand.
#5150: Gaza's Hunger Numbers: What the Data Actually Shows
Famine classification fights obscure simpler questions: how many children are acutely malnourished, and what does the data actually show?
#4998: What Happens at Passport Control in 15 Seconds
How officers decide in seconds whether to wave you through or pull you aside.
#4858: How Intelligence Agencies Sustain Decade-Long Manhunts
The operational art of hunting targets when the world has moved on and the trail is ice cold.
#4540: The One-Star Review Circuit: A Master Playbook
How to find the worst-rated restaurants in any city—and actually enjoy the experience.
#4087: What Connie Sachs’s Job Title Actually Is
How a fictional spy’s pattern-recognition skill maps to real CIA, MI5, and MI6 careers.
#4054: Flood the Zone: Obfuscation as Privacy Strategy
What if the best way to protect your real address is publishing a fake one? Obfuscation as offensive privacy.
#4052: From Phone Number to Identity Map
How a single phone number becomes a map of someone's digital life through graph-based OSINT techniques.
#4041: How Intelligence Operatives Build Digital Legends
Inside the craft of constructing fake digital identities that survive modern OSINT scrutiny.
#3896: How to Become Unapproachable While Moving Boxes in Jerusalem
Three escalating layers to stay unapproachable while moving cargo in a city where everyone is curious about your boxes.
#3843: Tracing the Grey Economy's Hidden Pipes
How journalists trace fraud from Tel Aviv boiler rooms to trafficking networks using public records and patience.
#3741: What Israeli Detectives Actually Do All Day
TV detectives solve cases in 42 minutes. Real ones spend months on fraud, counter-terrorism, and paperwork.
#3622: How OSINT Spots Electronic Warfare
How hobbyists track GPS jamming, radar ghosts, and the hidden signals of modern conflict.
#3052: The Boring Art of Professional Surveillance
Real surveillance is boredom by design, grey man theory, and choreographed teams — not Hollywood van work.
#2899: Can We Trust Palestinian Polls in Wartime?
How one man's surveys became the world's only window into Palestinian opinion—and whether the data is real.
#2760: How China's Overseas Police Stations Actually Work
MI5 footage confirms what investigators have tracked for years: a global network of unregistered Chinese police stations.
#2633: How Live UA Map Bridges Conflict Information Gaps
A curated conflict map that trades raw speed for verified, de-duplicated event tracking — used by civilians in active warzones.
#2378: The Cooperative vs. Commercial Origins of Global News
From telegraphs to RSS feeds, discover how global news wires like Reuters and AP shaped factual reporting worldwide.
#2371: The Graph That Thinks: From Data Dots to Human Judgment
Discover how tools like Maltego and Spiderfoot transform single data points into intricate webs of connections, bridging digital and physical inves...
#2339: When OSINT Meets the Fog of War
How open-source intelligence is reshaping—and sometimes distorting—our understanding of modern conflict.
#2210: When Every Interceptor Fired Is a Data Point
When Iran launches 574 ballistic missiles, the interceptors Israel fires back tell a story—and adversaries are listening. How open-source intellige...
#1897: The Pentagon Pizza Index: Predicting War with Pepperoni
Forget satellites and spies—the most reliable indicator of imminent military action might be the Google Maps 'busy' meter at a Domino's.