Vassago • OSINT & external exposure reference

OSINT & External Exposure Reference

A consolidated, defensive reference built from the David Bombal and Mishaal Khan video research, an authorized-client assessment workflow, and the My OSINT Training bookmarklet catalog. Built for lawful client exposure reviews, privacy remediation, and scoped pentest planning — not personal targeting or unsanctioned collection.

Start with scope, not tools

Mandatory gate: written authorization, named client/legal entity, approved assets/identities, allowed methods, retention rules, and a stop condition. Public availability is not blanket permission.
1. Passive first

Client-owned domains, public documents, public pages, authorized source repositories, and verified exposure-notification services.

2. Corroborate

Record URL, timestamp, observed fact, confidence, alternative explanation, remediation owner, and retest requirement.

3. Remediate at source

Remove personal contact data, sanitize documents/metadata, correct listings, use role contact data, harden accounts, then retest.

Where to go

Authorized client workflow

Discovery

Inventory client-owned public assets, exposed documents, published contacts, domains, historical web copies, and client-approved aliases.

Validation

Do not convert a lead into an identity claim. Compare independent authoritative sources and client-provided records.

Reporting

State impact, confidence, evidence, remediation, rollback, owner, and retest. Minimize PII in screenshots and reports.

Mobile/RF

Receive-only baseline and anomaly triage only. Carrier/regulator validation is required before attribution. No transmission or interception.

Non-negotiable boundaries

Do not operationalize from this reference: breach-data acquisition/searching, account enumeration, credential/token use, voter/hotel/public-record targeting, doxxing, stalking, social engineering, rate-limit/CAPTCHA bypass, wireless interception, rogue-tower simulation, SDR transmission, or third-party API abuse.