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Investigator OPSEC — threat-model who might notice you, control your attribution surface across IP, ASN, browser and TLS fingerprint, timing and logged-in accounts, separate research identity from real identity, build and age a sockpuppet research persona, and choose between VPN, residential proxy and Tor. Use when setting up a research account, avoiding tipping off a subject, worrying about LinkedIn profile-view leakage, needing a burner phone or email, or hardening a research VM or browser profile. Applies to covert due diligence, insider-threat investigation, source protection in journalism, and law-enforcement online work. Reference at useosint.com/skills/investigate-without-getting-made.

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# Investigate without getting made

Collection is bidirectional. Most investigators are burned not by a clever
adversary but by a platform doing exactly what it advertises: telling the
subject who looked at their profile, suggesting the investigator to the subject
as someone they may know, or marking a story as viewed. The default failure is
not a leaked IP address. It is being logged into a real account.

## Threat-model first

OPSEC effort should be proportionate. Answer three questions before you spend a
day building infrastructure — or before you decide you need none.

1. **Who might notice?** A dormant shell company, a moderately technical
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