Wandering Jackdaw

Hi, welcome to this write-up for the Ship Happens challenge from Bellingcat. Here you can see my thought processes and what steps I took to get to the answer, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same results. The challengeWe've received someone's travel picture and have to find out the name of the ship that brought the person visible in the picture to the location where the picture is taken. The picture seems to have been taken in some sort of terminal or other place…

Hi, welcome to this write-up for the A Very Cold Case challenge from Bellingcat. Here you can see my thought processes and what steps I took to get to the answer, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same results. The challengeWe've received an audio file with a radio programme covering the results of a Winter Olympics event. In the audio three different anthems can be heard partially. We have to find the date on which this medal ceremony took place. The first…

Hi, welcome to this write-up for the Urban Symphony challenge from Bellingcat. Here you can see my thought processes and what steps I took to get to the answer, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same results. The challengeWe've been given an audio file and need to find the name of the tower we can hear chiming. The locationListening to the audio, there were a lot of sounds that I didn't recognize. However, I could identify spoken text, so I decided to note that down…

Hi, welcome to this write-up of Exercise #024 by Sofia Santos on Gralhix. Here you can see what steps I took (and the thought processes behind them) to get to the answers, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same results. The taskWe've been given three pictures with individuals associated with organizations that are internationally recognized as terrorist. We've been asked to identify the three different organizations that appear in these images. Picture oneThe first…

Hi, welcome to this write-up of Exercise #003 by Sofia Santos on Gralhix. Here you can see what steps I took (and the thought processes behind them) to get to the answers, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same results. The taskWe've received a picture of a handshake between Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Where is this handshake taking place? It's our task to find the name and coordinates of the location seen on the photograph. The buildingI…

Hi, welcome to this write-up for the Charge Size challenge from Bellingcat. Here you can see my thought processes and what steps I took to get to the answer, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same results. The challengeThis challenge contains one question: What is the minimum amount of TNT needed to shatter windows 30 meters away? In the first challenge in this series it became clear that an overpressure of 1 psi can shatter windows. So, in this scenario, the…

Hi, welcome to this write-up for the Shattered Glass challenge from Bellingcat. Here you can see my thought processes and what steps I took to get to the answer, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same results. The challengeWe've been asked to give the minimum peak overpressure required to shatter glass (in kPa). All of these terms were new to me, so I decided to first learn a little about what we were dealing with. I googled for: minimum peak overpressure kpa This led…

Hi, welcome to this write-up of Exercise #025 by Sofia Santos on Gralhix. Here you can see what steps I took (and the thought processes behind them) to get to the answers, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same results. First lookFor this exercise we've received a picture of a wall with graffiti in an unidentified building. Our task is the following: a. Locate the building. b. Find the quote containing the word “anarchy”. Looking at the photograph, the first things…

Hi, welcome to this write-up of Challenge 2 by Mrs. OSINT. Here you can see what steps I took (and the thought processes behind them) to get to the answers, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same results. The challengeWe've received a picture of a busy street. Based on this single photograph we're being asked to answer the following questions: What are the coordinates for where this picture was taken? What popular district is this? It's Friday night, I could go for…

A write-up walkthrough on how to solve open source challenge exercise #028 by Sofia Santos on Gralhix with answers.