#cross-platform-pivot

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• I love cats — Athena Trace 2026 Writeup

  2026-08-15/socmint/#cross-platform-pivot#athena-trace-2026

  The obvious contact address is a decoy. The real one is on a platform the business posts to more often than it updates its own site — and then a trailing newline waits to eat your submission.

• A Taste of Influence, Part 2 — Name to Registrant Record

  2026-08-14/mediumsocmint/#cross-platform-pivot#osintindustries

  Part 2 of the A Taste of Influence OSINT challenge: name to city to business project to a pre-GDPR WHOIS record, and why the phone number is the part that matters.

• A Taste of Influence, Part 4 — Finding the Strava Account

  2026-08-14/easysocmint/#cross-platform-pivot#image-analysis#osintindustries

  The final part of the A Taste of Influence OSINT challenge: finding a subject's Strava account through public athlete search, and disambiguating on the profile photo.

• Holehe & The Secret Email — What a ProtonMail PGP Key Date Can Prove

  2026-08-06/mediumosint/#cross-platform-pivot#osintindustries

  ProtonMail never publishes account creation dates. It publishes a PGP key for every address, and that key carries a timestamp. One HKP query away, and less proof than it looks.

• Nothing To See Here — PDF → Mastodon → SSTV → QR

  2026-08-06/hardosint/#steganography#image-analysis#cross-platform-pivot#osintindustries

  A passive-OSINT challenge that chains white-on-white PDF text, an emoji substitution cipher, a Morse-tagged Robot 36 SSTV transmission and a QR code into a physical meeting location.

• A Concert Seat from a LinkedIn Lead

  2026-07-26/mediumsocmint/#cross-platform-pivot#diverosint2026

  One LinkedIn profile, a cross-platform pivot to a travel vlog, and a single blurry frame of a concert ticket. The seat was on the ticket — the hard part was reading one character correctly.