How to find people who don’t want to be found

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Javier Leiva

True Crime, Society & Culture, Technology

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

I recently spoke at the Triangle Content Creators Meetup in Raleigh, NC, about using OSINT techniques to locate and research your next guest. OSINT stands for Open Source Intelligence. As a journalist, I've teamed up with brilliant hackers like Mishaal Khan and Michael Bazzell to uncover new information about my subjects. In this talk, I explain how Alan Logan and I exposed Frank Abagnale and how Mishaal Khan and I investigated the Stalker case. I thought you might find this interesting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Creative Apple.
0:06.0	Hey guys, it's me, Javier.
0:08.0	I know a lot of you are curious on how I find, locate, and research my guests?
0:13.7	Well, just recently, I had the opportunity
0:16.8	to speak at the Triangle Content Creators
0:19.4	Meet Up in Raleigh about just that,
0:22.0	how I find my guests.
0:24.0	And when you talk about this in public,
0:27.0	that's when you realize that you're borderline creepy.
0:31.0	But hey, that's the only way to do this investigative podcast so I'm going to play
0:36.4	you this live presentation that I did I start out with the Frank Abagnale story which
0:42.3	a lot of you know but don't worry the whole
0:44.3	thing is not about Frank Abagnale so if you're curious on how I find people this
0:49.4	is how I do it all right let's play the clip.
0:51.9	Have your label let me tell you a story it. All right, let's play the clip.
0:55.0	Have your label. Let me tell you a story. So this is back in 2018, maybe 2017.
1:00.0	I'm on a run and I look for a new podcast and I found the pretend podcast and I am going
1:08.0	up the hill and listening to this podcast and it was about cults, a cult in North Carolina and I just stopped on my
1:16.4	tracks and was like what is happening it was next level storytelling and so I
1:21.8	had to stop and figure out who the heck this guy
1:24.0	Javier was because I got the sense that he was local from whatever content was in
1:29.1	the podcast. I looked him up and found that he worked at Red Hat and that he had an
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