The theme of the hackathon was “General Digital Investigation Tools”. Wikipedia has a good list-highlights include identifying the suspects behind the Skripal poisoning case.
They have broken a LOT of impressive stories over their eight year lifespan. They specialize in open source intelligence-which, confusingly, does NOT mean “open source software”-this is a much older usage of the term that describes the use of publicly available information to gather intelligence. Here’s my video introducing the new tool: Bellingcatīellingcat describe themselves as an “independent international collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists using open source and social media investigation to probe a variety of subjects”. I released a new project this weekend, built during the Bellingcat Hackathon (I came second!) It’s called Action Transcription and it’s a tool for caturing captions and transcripts from online videos. A tool to run caption extraction against online videos using Whisper and GitHub Issues/Actions
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