A Free OSINT Lesson: Being a Defense Attorney is Hard

Or, How I Learned to Watch Really Old Surveillance Footage For a Criminal Case Using OSINT

To be a lawyer, you need to be a nerd. Lawyers nerd out on legal shit. Statutes, case law, and using phrases like “boiler plate” or “fruit of the poison tree.”

And while this isn’t a rule, most lawyers I know aren’t nerds the way that I am. Now, I don’t mean my love of science fiction and really cheesy fantasy novels. I mean the digital side of being a nerd. The hours I spent as a teenager trying to download cheats for Team Fortress Classic so I could run an ‘aim bot,’ or downloading mods for Deus Ex. Even as a grown ass man with three kids, I still took four hours to find the perfect balance of graphics settings to run Cyberpunk 2077 on my gaming PC. I wanted to achieve that perfect mix of performance and graphics, running checks on my frame rate and GPU temperature, so everything looked super dope but never stuttered. I literally read forum posts on how to push my graphics card to the limit without cooking it, and how to maintain stability so the game didn’t crash. It’s a bit pathetic in hindsight, and most lawyers I know don’t have time for that kind of shit.