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      <description>An FBI affidavit against CIA contractor Ian A. Brinksman names only “Individual 1.” Its article dates match Capital &amp; Empire, Aída Chávez’s Marxist-lens outlet.</description>
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      <title>Inside Samolet, the Russian Homebuilder the EU Says Used North Korean Workers</title>
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      <title>An Iraqi Bank Sponsored Baghdad’s Anti-Money-Laundering Conference. Treasury Says It Sent Iran Dollars Every Month.</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 07:47:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>The Tech-Support Scam Infoblox Exposed Is Still Running, From a Server Not on Its List</title>
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      <title>Treasury Sanctioned Whales Shipping Line. Its Company Profile Still Names Its Staff.</title>
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      <title>Pegasus Took a Phone’s Past. AI Makes It Attributable</title>
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      <description>Op-ed: NSO’s own Pegasus 3.0 product description, filed in the WhatsApp case, pitches pulling a phone’s full history. AI makes that past the key to attribution.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:49:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Signal Encryption Stops at the Endpoint</title>
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      <description>sigtop unlocks Signal Desktop’s local store. E2EE is not endpoint security. Messages, media, group membership and UUIDv4 ACIs are the collection surface.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:01:22 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Redacted, Not Useless: FOIA Logs as OSINT Pivots</title>
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      <description>A redacted EUCOM watch log and a DoD Inspector General case log show how FOIA records become OSINT pivot points: what a command tracked and which files to pull.</description>
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      <title>Old Secrets, New Leads: DIA’s Islamic Jihad Files as OSINT</title>
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      <description>DIA reports on Palestinian Islamic Jihad from 2001 and 2005, once classified up to SECRET//NOFORN, map its cells, Damascus command and Iranian money.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:22:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
      <category>Investigations</category>
      <category>FOIA</category>
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      <title>Hexane’s AfD Dump: Assessing the Actor, the Scope, and the Access</title>
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      <description>Three-part assessment of Hexane’s AfD dump: a privacy-focused cyber actor, a 281 GB archive of ~421,000 emails, and how deep the system access went.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
      <category>Investigation</category>
      <category>OSINT</category>
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      <title>Operation Lonestar Roundup: Tracing the Gmail Accounts DOJ Tied to North Korea’s Texas Laptop Farms</title>
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      <description>DOJ tied eleven Gmail accounts to North Korean IT workers after FBI searches of forty-plus Texas laptop farms. The full list, traced through the court record.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
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      <title>From ‘E-Commerce Agent’ to ‘Machiaveli’: Feds Say Spokane Man Mailed ‘Medallin Cartel’ Cocaine</title>
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      <description>On LinkedIn, Salim Ghulam Nabi was an e-commerce agent. A federal affidavit says he was also Machiaveli, a darknet vendor selling ‘Medallin cartel’ cocaine.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
      <category>Investigations</category>
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      <title>Sanctioned Over Hamas Fundraising, Gaza Now Is Still Collecting on Telegram</title>
      <link>https://www.octoprobe.ai/blog/gaza-now-telegram-hamas-fundraising-sanctions-sabassi/</link>
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      <description>Treasury sanctioned Gaza Now in 2024. Its Telegram channel now has 1.1 million subscribers and still solicits money. A San Diego charity ran its crypto rail.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:10:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
      <category>Investigations</category>
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        <media:description type="plain">Sanctioned Over Hamas Fundraising, Gaza Now Is Still Collecting on Telegram</media:description>
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      <title>‘Did Not Wish to Create Panic’: FOIA Records Rebuild the Official Story of the Kabul Evacuation</title>
      <link>https://www.octoprobe.ai/blog/afghanistan-withdrawal-foia-kabul-evacuation-record/</link>
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      <description>State Department OIG files released under FOIA rebuild the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal: a Kabul embassy that feared panic, bad evacuee counts, and Navy emails.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:46:30 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
      <category>Investigations</category>
      <category>FOIA</category>
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        <media:description type="plain">Three FOIA-released document excerpts on a navy card: State Department OIG report AUD-MERO-23-15, a Navy status report on 662 evacuees at Sigonella, and an August 27, 2021, email about 53 at-risk women stopped at a Taliban checkpoint</media:description>
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      <title>How to FOIA the Situation Room: One Request Pried Loose Thousands of Obama-Era Photos</title>
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      <description>A FOIA how-to built on a real win: case 24-09538-F freed 3,951 Obama Situation Room photos and 3,851 files. How to file, read exemptions and get copies.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:26:24 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
      <category>Public Journalism Guide</category>
      <category>FOIA</category>
      <category>Presidential Records</category>
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      <title>Crowdfunding’s Hamas Problem: A Gaza Fundraiser’s Telegram Badge Leads to an Al-Qassam Chat</title>
      <link>https://www.octoprobe.ai/blog/crowdfunding-hamas-chuffed-gofundme-gaza/</link>
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      <description>Two Chuffed pages raised $12,948 and $6,736 for a Gaza man whose Telegram status badge traces to a chat named for al-Qassam, Hamas’s armed wing.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:58:22 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
      <category>Investigation</category>
      <category>OSINT</category>
      <category>Counterterrorism</category>
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      <title>Subpoena, Order, Warrant: How the Government Gets Your Data</title>
      <link>https://www.octoprobe.ai/blog/subpoena-warrant-online-accounts-three-branches/</link>
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      <description>Two FOIA releases show how Congress, an inspector general and the courts compel records, and why a subpoena gets your subscriber data but not your messages.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:16:57 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
      <category>Investigations</category>
      <category>Subpoenas</category>
      <category>Privacy Law</category>
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      <title>Inside the FBI's CAST Guide: How Carriers and Agents Pin Down a Cell Phone</title>
      <link>https://www.octoprobe.ai/blog/fbi-cell-phone-location-silent-sms-cast-guide/</link>
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      <description>An FBI field guide shows how police make a phone reveal its location with silent texts, pings and tower timing, how precise it gets, and what the law requires.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:55:59 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
      <category>Investigations</category>
      <category>Surveillance</category>
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      <title>Iran Says It Rules Hormuz. Its “Mine Strike” Stories Keep Falling Apart.</title>
      <link>https://www.octoprobe.ai/blog/iran-hormuz-mine-strike-claims-fall-apart/</link>
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      <description>Iran’s Guards say a supertanker hit a mine near Hormuz on Oct. 20. No ship, no position, no outside confirmation, and a record of relabeled strikes.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:15:39 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
      <category>Investigation</category>
      <category>OSINT</category>
      <category>Iran</category>
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      <title>How to FOIA an Official's Browser History, SharePoint Files and Teams Messages</title>
      <link>https://www.octoprobe.ai/blog/secret-service-foia-sharepoint-browser-history-osint-guide/</link>
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      <description>A seven-step FOIA guide: find an agency's SharePoint with public DNS, name a custodian, and request browser logs, documents and Teams chats.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:39:43 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
      <category>Public Journalism Guide</category>
      <category>FOIA</category>
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      <title>DHS Lawyers Wrote 24 Pages on Buying Your Phone’s Location Data. They Withheld Every Page of the Analysis.</title>
      <link>https://www.octoprobe.ai/blog/dhs-phone-location-data-legal-opinion-foia/</link>
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      <description>A DHS legal opinion on buying phone ad-ID location data came back under FOIA as one page and 23 withheld pages. How the trade works and what is still secret.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:25:04 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
      <category>Investigation</category>
      <category>FOIA</category>
      <category>Surveillance</category>
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        <media:description type="plain">DHS Lawyers Wrote 24 Pages on Buying Your Phone’s Location Data. They Withheld Every Page of the Analysis.</media:description>
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      <title>Jailed, Purged, Still Shipping: How ISIS Media Survives the Takedowns</title>
      <link>https://www.octoprobe.ai/blog/isis-media-survives-takedowns/</link>
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      <description>A life sentence for its lead narrator and seized servers across Europe and North America have not stopped the weekly newspaper. Public records show the workarounds.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:18:36 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
      <category>Investigation</category>
      <category>OSINT</category>
      <category>Counterterrorism</category>
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      <title>CEFC, PLA Base 311, and the Long Gap from FBI Surveillance to Designation</title>
      <link>https://www.octoprobe.ai/blog/cefc-china-energy-pla-base-311-public-record/</link>
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      <description>FBI files show surveillance of a Confucius Institute from 2008; designation came in 2020. CEFC’s PLA Base 311 links were public in between. A dated timeline.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:05:41 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
      <category>Analysis</category>
      <category>PLA Base 311</category>
      <category>FOIA</category>
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        <media:description type="plain">Cover: headline CEFC China Energy beside a tilted FBI file page dated December 1, 2008, over a dark map of Fuzhou with a red pin</media:description>
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      <title>North Korea's Fake IT Workers: Thin Covers, Borrowed Lives</title>
      <link>https://www.octoprobe.ai/blog/north-korea-it-worker-personas-backstopping/</link>
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      <description>We checked the eleven Gmail accounts DOJ tied to North Korean IT workers. Most had thin covers and new accounts. One rode what looks like a real American's history.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:44:25 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
      <category>Investigation</category>
      <category>OSINT</category>
      <category>North Korea</category>
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      <title>The Only Public Map of CENTCOM’s War Orders Is Dated 2022</title>
      <link>https://www.octoprobe.ai/blog/centcom-war-orders-anvil-chart-foia/</link>
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      <description>Op-ed: CENTCOM’s FOIA-released “Anvil Chart” shows how it stacks its war orders and what it hides. Iran-war modernization must start with authorities.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:28:41 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
      <category>Op-Ed</category>
      <category>CENTCOM</category>
      <category>FOIA</category>
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      <title>Your Taxes, Their Target List: Following NED Money Into Ukraine’s Online Info-Ops Web</title>
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      <description>In 2016 NED paid Prometheus $100,000 for work on InformNapalm, a site that shares a mail server with Myrotvorets, a list naming Americans, and promotes it.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:25:42 -0400</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Colin Aamot</dc:creator>
      <category>Investigation</category>
      <category>OSINT</category>
      <category>Ukraine</category>
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        <media:description type="plain">Your Taxes, Their Target List: OctoProbe cover over a map of Kyiv</media:description>
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      <title>25 Pages of Press Clips: Leak Shows How Thin White House Vetting Really Was</title>
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