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by xwdv 2275 days ago
But why would there be? It’s a niche application and the target market doesn’t care about open source.
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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.