hi I'm Ben let's take a look at 11 helpful ENT tools that you can use today for free there's no payment no coding just yourself your computer and an internet connection at the end of this video I'll provide a bigger list of 24 ENT tools that you should check out and save to your bookmarks so hang on tight why am I sharing this well in a world full of information the ability to find analyze and verify data has never been more powerful so whether you're investigating social media profiles verifying viral videos or diving deep into
satellite imagery open source intelligence tools can unlock a world of possibilities and the best part many of them are free the first tool is flight tracking with flight radar all you have to do is head to the website at Flight Radar 24 and already as soon as you land there you can see all of the flights currently flying around the world at any time there's a number of features that are available in the freev view which is really quite cool so first of all you've got live uh flight tracking so say for example um we
can see a number of helicopters around this area here so if we look at commercial flights like this one we can see that it's going from T Aviv to Paris and it's on its way there along with a number of others and it's really useful because we can just keep adding some of these roots around here each time I click on one it just adds it to the panel there a free version isn't unlimited and there are some setbacks with the free version with Flight Radar 24 they've given us the opportunity to use the playback
function which is historical flight radar data or flight data but it only goes back a week or 7 days so where I'm viewing this on Sunday January 12th it allows me to go back to January 5 on the previous Sunday and as soon as I click that I'm currently viewing flights from from January 5 and what's useful about this is that I can click zoom out on the timeline and move say 12 hours forward and it just allows me to use this timeline that I've got here this playback timeline and go around different dates so
I can fast forward to January 9 and we can also speed up the process as well so you can see the flights a little bit quicker and you can zoom out a little bit and just see what's going where a little bit quicker of course if I zoomed in say over Tel Aviv the flights will move much quicker and by using this it really allows us just to track those flights have a look at what's going where uh but also get more updated information than what perhaps when you're at an airport is displayed on the
board so you'd be able to more precisely identify both where a plane is but also when it's going to arrive has it even left its previous Point of Departure remember that all flights are identified by their their tail number so so I wanted to I had a picture of this uh UI Airlines flight y1 aqs and I wanted to track that I would take the registration number or just see what the registration number is from the photo and I would go to my flight radar here and have a look at that flight and here we
can see some of the details about that flight I could play its most recent flight from January 12 so we can see it on the map here going from Istanbul to Bagdad um but also we can see some of its other flights as well so if you ever see a plane in a video or a photo and you want to have a look at where it's going or where it's come from or how long it might be sitting on the tarmac or the apron really useful ways just to take the registration number of the aircraft
uh and pop it into a website like flight radar of course flight radar is not the only flight track there are a number of others and you can easily find them just by plugging in Flight trackers through Google the second tool we're going to go through is facial recognition or facial searches with the website search for faces you can easily get there by going onto Google and typing in search forces.com this is a really useful tool that allows you to search for faces across social media engines uh say you wanted to identify someone's face and
you might be suspecting that that they're a public person but you just can't think of their name well this is a really easy website for that all you have to do is click on one of these easy options such as proceed to search under public persons I'm going to upload a photo the image that I've chosen is one that I've used in a previous example of this gentleman so I have uploaded the image and I'm going to click search and it looks like we've got some identical matches too specifically or actually quite a few of
the same gentlemen so it says it could be Blake Lively or it could be someone called David Gandy uh and we seem to have a few different matches there of David gandhy we could go to Google and perhaps even have a search now for David gandhy and see that actually yes that's the person that we were looking for in here not only can you search for public faces but we could also perhaps have a look at avatars of the social network Tik Tok just before we click on that you can also see just how many
faces have been processed so I'm going to go to Tik Tok uh I'm going to click proceed to search looks like we've got some success and even some different images uh and it looks like David Gandy is pretty popular on Tik Tok or at least people using David gandy's images ENT tool number three that we're going to look at is searching for usernames on the internet and specifically we're going to look at the tool what's my name web which is made by a number of individuals including Michael Hoffman and others and also you can see
oin combine is involved up here oink combine is a ENT organization and I've actually used their username because we are going to have a search for their other social media handles so I'm going to paste that into there and run the search so we are running a search for osnc combine and you can see what it does here it's quite cool it filters by username so it comes up with the social media platforms that use the same username it's come up with some Google searches or at least the the first page of of Google results
but also interesting when we do the what's my name web search is this section over here not only does it come up with all results but it also filters the Google search results or the search results of the username that we've popped in up here into say for example PDFs is it mentioning any spreadsheets documents any PowerPoints no text files no python JavaScript no and when you searching for say someone's name or usernames that pop up so I've done this for mine just to keep track of if anyone's using my tweets or citing my tweets
but it's nice to have it all in one place here now that it's finished the processing it's found nine handles I guess you could call them or social media accounts this is also a really good way to find some of the old social media handles that you might have had in the past and perhaps ones that you might have forgotten about as well so very use useful tool and a big hat tip to all those involved who have kept it up and further developed it as time has gone on the fourth ENT tool we're going
to look at is finding out how many people fit in a space using map checking it's a really cool tool that allows you to basically estimate the number of people that can fit in a specific area so say for example we have received a news report of people fitting in the park around the Eiffel Tower so that's maybe uh a viewing area over here we'll go on satellite imagery and maybe there's a a protest or something for example happening along this street and we've seen a headline that has said that there's more than a million
people Millions Gather in front of the Eiffel Tower well is that actually possible well let's have a look so what we can do is we can simply click on the map and we're looking at the satellite imagery that I've popped on here we'll just go for this area here let's see how many people fit in this area on the right side here we've got differences in crowd density that we can identify as to how many people could actually be there uh so here's a crowd density uh that's light I can change that as well so
crowded could be about 6,700 people could fit there if we're packing people land so that's four people per square meter 13,41 12 estimated so about 13,400 we've also got a little tab here that just says what does this look like we can see the different types so where we were selecting this before and we were looking at light crowded or packed we can actually go through here and this is just the the density of people so uh where we looking at four people per square meter let's go back to this one and let's slide down
so we got uh four people per square that's what it looks like so if you saw a photo that looked like that in comparison to perhaps a photo of5 people per square meter quite spaced out you'd see very very different results in in numbers right look at that uh and so this is a very very useful tool just to do a little bit of factchecking especially where we see that often mentioned in news outlets or by bloggers or or video loggers when they're walking through a protest saying there's millions of people or hundreds of thousands
you can easily fact check that just by identifying the area perhaps the limitations so the the uh the the size of the area and those reference points that you might have in the video and just having a look at perhaps how crowded it might be by using these Graphics as a reference point and then you're able to just easily check is that actually a million people or is it more like 20,000 or 15,000 ENT tool number five helps us do specific searches on Facebook and it's called who posted what there's a couple of different features
of who posted what I'm going to show you one specific feature which allow ows us to search or limit our searches based on a date or month or year so the search that I'm going to do now that it's the new year of 2025 is to have a look at fireworks and I'm going to also search for London of course we want to see 1st of January because that would be about the fireworks from New Year's Eve in London and here we have lots of lovely photos and videos about the Beautiful works that happened in
London on 31st of December 2024 and we could compare those results against say videos and photos of 2010 fireworks from January 1 2010 let's also have a look it looks like the Big Ben is still very Capital but my gosh the quality of those photos and videos very different for fireworks at night ENT tool number six that we're going to look at is using machine learning to identify a model of a vehicle or a model of a car this is a really good tool it's called caret doai you can simply go there by typing into
your browser whichever one you use caret doai it's got a number of test images on here but we can also upload images that we might have and it allows us to identify them for free of course you can't use too many so it seems like we're limited to a th000 requests per day I certainly wouldn't be hitting that rate anytime soon but we can essentially upload a image of a car especially when you're looking for certain car models or car providers I've used this in a number of Investigations and it's been really useful for me
because I just might not be as good as I think when dealing with car models ENT tool number seven that is really useful is called live UA map live UA map actually stands for live Universal awareness map and basically it collects and Maps events happening around the world every single day which just really allows you to be much more informed about events that are happening in certain countries or regions or uh theaters that you might be studying so at the moment I am looking over Ukraine and rather than just heading straight to the news I'm
able to see a number of events on a map and I might be interested in a specific region say for example the front line in the Southeast and already I can see from a number of hours ago specific clashes that are happening at event uh I can see this icon um and we can see all of these ones along here but also we can even see some of the Drone attacks and Ukrainian air defense shootdowns overnight as well the best thing about this is it always goes back to the source as well so this source
for example will take me to a telegram Chann Channel whereas some of these other sources might take me to news articles or or Outlets as well there's a number of other theaters that this covers for example uh if I was interested in current events within the us around violence or what's happening there you're able to scroll on the right through this kind of feed if you will of interesting news of course this is only a free version with the premium version there's a lot more features available such as other regions for me I've been watching
a lot of developments in Syria recently uh and we can see that there is a fair bit of tracking around there uh but also just so many other regions ENT tool number eight that we're going to look at is a publicly available map of power infrastructure across the world this is an incredibly detailed map with lots of different layers including nighttime lights which is a pretty cool effect the map allows us to look at so many interesting things for example we can have a look at China over here and have a look at where some
of these hot spots are so we've got the desert solar Park and we're able to see uh the code of lines that we have so these are uh these different colors the different type of kilovolt power lines that we have um we've also have the the logos and then we've got the uh solar panel lines as well and it's a very interesting map in terms of being able to see the connectivity between infrastructure uh but also details of infrastructure so we can even shut all these off and have a look at Water facilities but then
also looking at oil and gas so we can see uh oil and gas pipelining going on here um along this region we can look at the uh infrastructure key for some of these ones uh petroleum oil and gas and we can see some of the different kind of color codings uh that we've got over here so it's an incredibly fascinating and detailed map and and a lot of effort being put into this uh and certainly something that you should check out so big credits to the folks that have done that and this is made using
uh data from osm or open street map so really clever way to use this data just to get everything that you can possibly want to see on a map around infrastructure ENT tool number n that we're going to look at allows you to find geotagged YouTube videos through a map it's called MW gofind you can also find it on matt. the website you can simply get there typing mwg fun into any search engine and essentially is a search engine that allows you to find geotagged videos from YouTube and pop them up on a map so
I'm going to look uh around say for example Philadelphia for videos so I po My Little cursor over here uh and all I'm going to do is just click on submit it's coming up with quite a few videos so it's processing the channel IDs and here we go we've got some videos uh we can easily click through some of these and you can see that there's a number of videos with different locations there's a two client nail day woohooo um Choco Kelly surprise uh but there's a lot of interesting ways to use this map I
think it's fun to ALS use in your local area so I've used this when looking for hiking spots what they actually look like especially those amazing vloggers that just do 2our videos where they record a massive walk you can kind of see what it looks like up front you can see what you have to pack rather than just reading a short written review ENT tool number 10 is a shadow calculator essentially allows you to identify the time of day just using the Shadows that are in photos or videos you can simply use it by checking
out the Shadows that might be in an image and any random image you're able to essentially digitally recreate that on a map once you found the location of that image you can simply recreate that shadow there so I'm going to change my object length to 40 m you can see my little Shadow length right here and that just shows us what the shadow would have looked like at 8:00 a.m. in the morning 10 11 12 right up to 4: 5 and 6 just before the sun goes down I've done a number of tutorials using Shadow
calculators I'll link to them in the description below you can also see a little popup on your screen to show some of the tutorials where we've used Shadow calculations for soldiers in the desert or Boris Johnson when he was standing out the front of 10 Downing Street in the UK Shadow calculations are really fun they sound quite complex but actually they're very very easy to do ENT tool number 11 is searched by image image reverse search is probably one of the most basic oent tools you can use on the planet and often the start to
a very great story whether it's an incredibly important disinformation factchecking story or whether it's the start of an incredible investigation that arals as you dive down the rabbit hole many a great investigation has started with an image of our search there's an incredible plugin that's been made it's available on Google Chrome web store so you can use that on Brave or Google Chrome browsers it's called search by image I'll link to it in the section below and essentially allows you to rightclick and do a search by image on many different image reverse search engines I'm
going to go back to that example I used in one of the other tools around the oyn combined GE location and I'm going to use that plugin to do a image ofse search using Google what this does is it brings that image into Google lens and it does a image of search for me and you can see that that website has actually popped up we can also do that through Bing that brings the image into Bing and shows me some results sometimes this can be misleading so it's given me different locations but quite a useful
one just to be able to quickly take that image into other sections now I'm doing an image of search with andex and again that gives completely different results and you can obviously use Tini shutter stock and even bu do which is a search engine for Chinese websites you can also open the image to get a few more details it will open a full version of the image if you wanted to actually have a look at the image a little bit deeper and there's so many different parts that you can look at with that that's the
plugin search by image for image reverse search of course you don't have to use a plugin there's so many other options for image reverse search out there and if you're using Google Chrome or Brave you can simply just rightclick and search image with Google which is an incredibly basic function that you've got there that's the last tool and I really hope you've enjoyed some of the examples that we've gone through and learning about some of these tools and I hope they are useful to you as promised in the start this is not the only list
of tools I actually have further tools so there's 24 Tools in total that will be linked to in the the description below it is a full spreadsheet with all 24 tools listed in there and their links and what they do if you have any other suggestions for tools why not pop them in the comments section below I'd love to learn a little bit more as I definitely don't know everything and I'd love to see what many of you are using in your own research thanks and take it easy [Music]
