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News7 min
A handle documented in the Daejon Love case returned an account ID and a banned/disabled flag in our dated searches. Here is the source evidence, the metadata observed and what those findings do not establish.
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Guides10 min
Most dating apps cannot be searched from outside. What works is narrower: public dating pages for a username, registration signals for an email address, and the handles people put in their dating bios. Here is how each route works, what a result really means, how to verify a match, and where a safety check ends.
Guides10 min
How to find social media accounts by phone number: the free manual checks, how a live reverse phone lookup for social media reads registrations, recovery hints, national directories and US public records, and how to tell a real lead from a recycled number.
Comparisons10 min
An honest, sourced UserSearch review as of September 26, 2026: who runs it, what the free usersearch.org search and Free Preview return, Premium pricing and credits, and the new terms on auto-renewal, cancellation and refunds.
Security9 min
An index of OSINT case studies built on public-record identifiers from charged, convicted and sanctioned cybercrime cases. The method, a table of all 12 posts and the technique each teaches, six lessons that hold across cases, and the ethics rules the series follows.
Security9 min
How do hackers get caught? In the cases that reach court, usually through their own history: an old personal email, a reused password, a login from home, a crypto account opened with real ID, or a trip abroad. Here is how the FBI and journalists made the link in real cases, with a primary source for each, and what those published addresses still return today.
Guides9 min
A username match is not an attribution. Using aliases and email addresses already printed in sanctions entries, court filings and named reporting, this guide grades each kind of OSINT evidence on a six-rung ladder, from common-word collisions like "mango" (439 exact-match results) to email-anchored accounts and display names that reproduce a published identification. It also covers what never counts and how to verify a "hacker's email" before you pivot.
Guides9 min
GitHub has no public search for hidden emails, but commit attribution links addresses to accounts. Four manual checks, what an email lookup adds, and seven public-record cases where a court or sanctions address led to a GitHub profile created years before the case.
Privacy9 min
Yes, but rarely through the burner itself. Court records show persona addresses traced through registrar logins, a shared VPN address, domain records and leaked forum databases. An email lookup finds no registrations for those addresses, consistent with the records, while the owners' everyday mailboxes still return registrations.
Guides10 min
Where GitHub, X, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Discord and TikTok publish an account's creation date, how precise each one is, and how to read those dates as evidence, with public cybercrime cases showing accounts opened before a case, during it, and after the name went public.
