The not yet exploited goldmine of osint: Opportunities, open challenges and future trends

B. SOCIAL NETWORKS

Nowadays, the exposure of the daily life of individuals and

organizations in social networks is evident. Any curious per-

son has realized that lot of personal information can be found

with no advanced knowledge needed about these platforms.

As shown in TABLE 3, these applications offer precise search

possibilities in the context of OSINT. Next we describe some

of the most known and used social networks worldwide.

1

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433

2

https://yandex.com/support/search/query-language/search-

operators.html

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J. Pastor-Galindo et al.: The not yet exploited goldmine of OSINT: Opportunities, open challenges and future trends

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