Tools and tips round up: Searching YouTube transcripts, monitoring webpages, and more

Plus: video talks about investigating the dark web and the OSINT mindset.

A slide from Niko Dekens’ presentation at Le Hack

Welcome to another year of Digital Investigations! Thank you for reading and for sharing this newsletter with friends and colleagues. I appreciate your feedback and comments and intend to keep Digital investigations free.

Let’s kick off 2024 with a look at new (to me) tools and readings worth your time. I also added a new section to highlight videos worth watching. One pick is a video of Nico Dekens’s recent talk at Le Hack. He emphasized the importance of mindset, being systematic in your work, developing and testing research questions, and more. Maybe start the new year with a reminder of the primacy of mindset and workflow?

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