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paganel 2 days ago

Nothing like an OSINT company like Bellingcat hasn't done before, it's just that in those cases it was done on citizens belonging to adversary countries. It was just a matter of time, I guess.

nubg 2 days ago | parent [-]

What?

paganel 2 days ago | parent [-]

See how Bellingcat was "reverse" finding the identities of Russian citizens based on the cars they were owning. Too lazy to search for the exact links, this was around 2020-2021, something like that.

Later edit: Something like this [1], from late 2020: "Russian Vehicle Registration Leak Reveals Additional GRU Hackers". There were also some other articles with Google StreetView screenshots and the like, I won't search for them because even finding this one reference means I'm not doing something better with my time right now.

[1] https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2020/10/22/russian-...