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Deep Dives Resources for Researchers
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Posted 4/6/2020 · 4 min read
Good day Deep Divers, Diggers and Researchers!
##### Today, @deepdives would like to share some incredible resources with you that can help make your research experience more accurate, comprehensive, on-target and rewarding. ##### Certainly, this collection of resources is by NO MEANS a complete list, there are plenty more out there to discover and employ. ##### In fact, we encourage any and all members of the Deep Dives Community to add to this list any invaluable archives, databases and resources you believe every DIY investigative researcher should have in their toolbox. ##### Feel free to add links to your favorites in the comment section. ##### It's only right to begin by encouraging diggers to be cautious and to be safe while conducting research. ##### We highly recommend starting off by viewing the Electronic Frontier Foundations's - **Surveillance Self-Defense** - Guide and also **Privacy and Security** checklist and making sure that you are regularly using Virtual Private Networks as best practice. ### _EFF - Surveillance Self-Defense_ #### https://ssd.eff.org/ ### _Privacy and Security Checklist_ ##### https://inteltechniques.com/JE/Privacy_Checklists_Feb2019.pdf ##### Enjoy and Happy Digging!*** ## Virtual Private Networks / Virtual Machines / Encryption #### PGP https://www.openpgp.org/ #### Protonmail.com https://protonmail.com/ #### Proton VPN https://protonvpn.com/ #### Express VPN (*use at own risk) https://www.expressvpn.com/ #### Virtual Box https://www.virtualbox.org/ #### VeraCrypt https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html #### HTTPS Everywhere https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere #### Privacy Badger https://privacybadger.org/ #### Starttls Everywhere https://starttls-everywhere.org/ #### Brave Browser https://brave.com/ #### Duck Duck Go https://duckduckgo.com/ #### _*TOR (The Onion Router)_ [*WARNING - Many researchers claim TOR is NO LONGER SAFE - Yet, still recommended by EFF] https://www.torproject.org/ *** ## Internet Archivers #### Internet Archive | Wayback Machine > building a digital library of Internet
https://archive.org/ https://archive.org/web/
Archive.today
Archive.today is a time capsule for web pages! It takes a 'snapshot' of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears.
http://archive.is/ https://archive.li/ *** ## Internet Trends | Domain Names | Visualization #### Domain Name Registration Data Lookup https://lookup.icann.org/ #### Muckrack Trends https://muckrack.com/trends/ #### Graph Commons https://graphcommons.com/ *** ## Public Archives | Leakers & Whistleblowers #### WIKILEAKS https://wikileaks.org/ https://wikileaks.cloud/ #### OffShore Leaks https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/ #### Panama Papers https://www.icij.org/ #### Cryptome https://cryptome.org/ #### Public Intelligence https://publicintelligence.net/ #### EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) https://www.eff.org/ #### OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Program) https://www.occrp.org/en https://aleph.occrp.org/ #### Investigative Dashboard https://investigativedashboard.org/ #### ProPublica (Non-Profits) https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/ #### ProPublica (Credible Accused Priests Database) https://projects.propublica.org/credibly-accused/ #### GIJC (2015) https://gijc2015.org/2015/10/10/top-10-data-research-tools-for-investigative-journalists/ #### Arms Sales Monitoring https://fas.org/asmp/profiles/index.html *** ## Corporation Ownership and Tracking #### Corporation Wiki https://www.corporationwiki.com/ #### Little Sis https://littlesis.org/ #### Open Corporates https://opencorporates.com/ #### Open Secrets > Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy.It saves a text and a graphical copy of the page for better accuracy and provides a short and reliable link to an unalterable record of any web page
Corporate Research Project | Corporate Rap Sheets
https://www.corp-research.org/corporaterapsheets
Wall Street Journal Market Data
https://www.wsj.com/market-data
Drug Watch
Pharmaceutical Industry Violation Tracker
https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/industry/pharmaceuticals
Court Records and Documents
#### PACER https://www.pacer.gov/ #### US Courts https://www.uscourts.gov/court-records #### National Centre for State Courts https://www.ncsc.org/ #### EPIC - Information on FISA Courts https://epic.org/privacy/surveillance/fisa/stats/default.html #### FootNoted - SEC Filings https://www.footnoted.com/ #### Sqoop https://sqoop.com/ *** ## Government Public Resources #### Government Documents https://archive.org/details/USGovernmentDocuments #### National Archives https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/archived-websites #### Government Attic https://governmentattic.org/ #### Public Accountability https://publicaccountability.org/ #### CIA Reading Room https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/home #### FBI Vault https://vault.fbi.gov/ #### The Whitehouse https://www.whitehouse.gov/ #### US Spending https://www.usaspending.gov/#/ #### Department of Defense (DOD) Newsroom https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/ #### Department of Defense (DOD) Contracts https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contracts/ #### State Department - Reports on Human Trafficking https://www.state.gov/trafficking-in-persons-report/ #### Department of Justice https://www.justice.gov/news #### Inspector General Reports https://www.oversight.gov/reports #### Just the Real News https://www.justtherealnews.com/ #### US Census https://www.census.gov/about/what.html #### Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/ #### EPA - Toxic Release Inventory https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program/find-understand-and-use-tri #### USPS - Find Zip Codes https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action #### Federal Procurement Data System https://www.fpds.gov/fpdsng_cms/index.php/en/reports.html #### US Open Data Portals https://github.com/sunlightpolicy/opendata/blob/master/USlocalopendataportals.csv *** ## FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) #### The National Security ArchiveMuckrock
FOIA Machine
The Black Vault
https://www.theblackvault.com/
FOIA
https://foia.state.gov/Search/Search.aspx
FOIA Wiki
https://foia.wiki/wiki/Main_Page
People Search | White Pages | Reverse Phone Lookup
#### Spokeo https://www.spokeo.com/ #### Hunter https://hunter.io/ *** ## Flight Data #### Federal Aviation Adminitration (FAA) Registry https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/ #### ADSBexchange (Flight Data) https://www.adsbexchange.com/ #### Flight Radar 24 https://www.flightradar24.com/37.6,126.98/8 *** ## Tools #### How To: Investigative Journalism vis https://learn.ire.org/free-videos/ #### Image Verification Assistant http://reveal-mklab.iti.gr/reveal/ #### Text Fixer (Text Alphabetizer) https://www.textfixer.com/tools/alphabetize-text-words.php #### Subly (Transcripts and Subtitles) https://www.getsubly.com/ #### Journalist's Tool Box - Index https://www.journaliststoolbox.org/ #### A Journalist's Guide to Web Scraping https://gijn.org/2015/08/11/web-scraping-a-journalists-guide/?utm_content=buffer34ef6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer #### Podcast Tools http://toolsforpodcasting.openbooks.wpengine.com/ #### InVid https://www.invid-project.eu/ > InVID will build a platform providing services to detect, authenticate and check the reliability and accuracy of newsworthy video files and video content spread via social media. #### YouTube Data Viewer (Amnesty International) https://citizenevidence.amnestyusa.org/  *** ##### FYI - @deepdives plans on providing periodical updated versions of Research Resources ##### Members of the Community are ENCOURAGED to SHARE their methods, favorite tools and "How To" tutorials in their own posts!!!Discussion
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