This is a newsletter about journalism and coding.
If you subscribe, here’s what you can expect:
Tutorials on finding information – pictures, profiles, malware – what’s generally being described as “open source intelligence/investigations”, OSINT
code snippets and small tools we write to help with our research
insights from working as reporters with a focus on cyberoperations (espionage, sabotage)
occasional technical deep dives into methods we used in projects and some ‘lessons learned’ along the way
You won’t find weekly news roundups here. If you want to keep up with what’s happening in the cyber world, there are good newsletters already. We can recommend This Week in Security, Risky Biz, Bad Cyber etc.)
We also won’t necessarily discuss investigations we worked on, unless we feel like.
There are many reasons, we’ll stick to three.
Both of us have learned so much thanks to other people sharing their knowledge, be it in blog posts, in conversations, workshops or on sites like Stack Overflow. This is us trying to do the same. If you read something in this newsletter that helps you in your project or inspires an idea, that’s all we can hope for.
We both have full time jobs, but we wanted a dedicated space for our thoughts and ideas.
Sometimes, writing things down helps to focus on what you actually learned, think of a topic or believe needs to be said publicly. This newsletter will help us commit to more of this.
Weekly, hopefully. Could be bi-weekly as well.
Hi, I’m Jan! I started out as an investigative reporter, but my work kept getting more and more technical. Now I’m a co-founder of the Data and Research Center, a small company that builds journalistic infrastructure and supports newsrooms with data journalism and research. You can connect with me via Linkedin or Bluesky, and follow (some of) my work on Github.
✌🏼, I’m Hakan (Tanriverdi) (Linkedin, Bluesky, Mastodon). I have been covering hacking and cyber operations for a decade now. I don’t have a background in computer science, I know a little bit about Python. Not enough to be good, but enough to get by.
Some of the stuff I’ve worked on is on Linktree.