Hackers helping communities: Leveraging OSINT to find missing persons - Help Net Security

Hackers helping communities: Leveraging OSINT to find missing persons - Help Net Security

People, in general, like helping other people, no matter their degree of connection. And then there are people who go even further: they find a way to help people help people. Robert Sell, the founder and president of Trace Labs, is one of those individuals.



For the last ten years, Sell has been helping track down missing persons in the wilderness of British Columbia, Canada. But people don’t go missing just in the wilderness, and his background in IT and information security spurred him to explore the possibility of widening searches to encompass the online world.


“As a volunteer in Search & Rescue, I have seen families destroyed when a loved one goes missing. The agony this causes is beyond words to describe. I have also been lucky enough to see families reunited, which the best feeling in the world. I created Trace Labs ..

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