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by bane 2276 days ago
It is of continuous disappointment to me that there really isn't not only a good FOSS link-analysis tool, but doesn't appear to be any of any quality. I've used yED in a pinch a couple of times but it's not FOSS.
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But why would there be? It’s a niche application and the target market doesn’t care about open source.
Governments and police in particular are customers for these tools and they do care about open source. If there was a good competitive FOSS tool out there, not a weekend project by any means, but a serious effort. It would be adopted.
Plenty of folks in the DEFCON crowd could be building free tools like this; off the cuff, a lot of anti-fascists probably don't have access to high quality OSINT analysis tools, and certainly aren't persuing Palantir contracts.