OSINT Insider Issue #2 - Making a Honeypot: Tools, Laws/Regulations, Tutorial

In this edition of the OSINT Insider, you’ll get a deep dive into powerful honeypot tools/techniques for tracking someone’s location, including breakdowns of the different capabilities, use cases, and an in-depth tutorial. You’ll also get valuable insights from a compliance expert on the laws and regulations affecting honeypots such as GDPR and CCPA.

“So, you want to come to the darkside heh!?”

OSINT is typically seen as an entirely passive intelligence discipline. In the past when I’ve suggested the idea of using a honeypot to get information directly from a subject, I’ve often been verbally lambasted. And to the credit of the TraceLab judges who drill this into volunteers’ skulls, you're right, for those novice or new OSINTers, these techniques are dangerous. However, I hope to provide enough information in this article to explain not just how to do this, but to explain why you probably shouldn’t.