In this video, I want to briefly go over crossing the Line or ethical and legal boundaries.
Now, it's important to remember as investigators, we are not criminals.
We're not, uh, malicious hackers.
Malicious hackers will use Osint, or they commonly referred to as reconnaissance, which is the first
phase of hacking to collect information.
Now, the method that that a hacker will use, a malicious hacker will use is they may do a phishing
attack, they may do a phishing attack, they may may put a virus out there to start collecting information.
They may do illegal scanning on a network to collect information.
As investigators, we need to abide by the local laws.
Every city, state, county and country will have their own laws pertaining to, uh, collection of
information and, uh, uses of computers and whatnot.
You want to make sure that your that what you're doing, how you're going about your investigation.
Stays within the confines of the law.
Also, we want to make sure that we also keeping with the guidelines of whatever company we're working
for or whoever our client is, even if.
What we're doing does not break any laws.
The our client or our company may have their own set of rules that we need to follow and make sure that
we're abiding by.
Now, if we fail to comply with these laws or these guidelines, we may breach our contract.
We may lose our job or the client, or we could be fined or even jailed.
So definitely don't want that to happen.
And also if we illegally or improperly collect data.
Um.
If this is being used in a legal case, that evidence could potentially be thrown out because it would
be considered tainted.
So again, we need to make sure that we follow certain guidelines.
And it's important to again, make sure that you know what your local laws are.
And typically in open source intelligence gathering.
Um.
We're not trying to reset passwords, things like that, of that nature.
Again, we have to make sure that we that we do everything by the book, that everything is legal in
order to make sure that, again, we don't get ourselves in trouble and ultimately get that evidence
tainted.
So again, this was about legal and ethical boundaries.
Thank you for watching.
I'll see you in the next video.