In this video we're talking about Osint tools and website tools.
At some point.
Your favorite tool, whether it's a website or a tool that we go that we're installing or becomes part
of the Trace Labs or Seaside Linux or any other distribution, it is going to break at some point.
So.
That's just to warn you that yes, your tool will most likely break at some point.
It may get fixed at some point it may not, depending on how severe the issue is.
It's not always the fault of the manufacturer or whoever programmed those tools.
A lot of times websites will make changes on their end, and it makes it harder for people making investigation
tools to.
Get around that and still be able to collect the information that they're looking for.
Things like Facebook constantly tweaks their security.
Uh, Twitter slash X, Instagram and so on and so forth.
So a absolutely prime example is when Twitter got taken over when it got bought out.
The Twitter site, the servers, the API which these tools will hook into.
Came crashing down in a pretty spectacular fashion.
So there's been a there was all sorts of issues, all sorts of turmoil, wholesale changes to how Twitter
works, uh, how information that's getting out there, the API in itself, we can see here Twitter
API keeps breaking even, even for developers paying $42,000 for it.
Um, API response codes and errors.
How a single engineer brought down Twitter.
Um.
In other issues with the.
Uh, CEO at the time, making changes, sweeping changes to that platform that caused a lot of issues.
And most of the tools that were that we used for OS and for Twitter no longer worked.
Matter of fact, most of them still don't work anymore, and they probably won't as long as they continue
to keep locking down Twitter and making it.
Well, I'm going to say pretty unfriendly for investigations.
That's why whenever a tool breaks, we have a couple of options.
We can go and we can try another tool, which may work.
But if that doesn't work, also, the one thing you could always rely on is your methodology.
So no matter what they do to Twitter for the most part, or X or Facebook or Instagram or Snapchat and
so on and so forth.
Get your methodology down.
Figure out how you're going to tackle the problem and take that manual approach again.
Because again, those APIs could break, they could lock things down and so on and so forth.
But for the most part, you can always rely on good old fashioned methodology to get you through and
to gather that information during your investigations.
So keep that in mind.
And again, if you're if the tool breaks, that's not a stopping point for you.
Again, you can find another tool or better yet, fall back on your methodology for your investigations.
So this was about tools and websites and those things breaking.
Thank you for watching.
I'll see you in the next video.