By Marie-Soleil Seshat Landry, OSINT analyst and researcher · ORCID 0009-0008-5027-3337 · Marie Landry Spy Shop, a Landry Industries publication Say the word “spy” and most people picture two very different characters. One is the brilliant analyst who pieces together the truth from scraps of information everyone else overlooked. The other is the shadowy figure who breaks into phones, plants bugs and reads other people’s mail. Popular culture blends them into one person. The law does not. This post draws the line between them. On one side is open-source intelligence (OSINT) : research built entirely on information that is lawfully and publicly available. Call it the legal side of intelligence work, or, if you like the spy-novel framing, “legal espionage”. On the other side are the practices that turn a researcher into a lawbreaker: hacking, interception, stalkerware, pretexting and surveillance without a warrant. Quick note on words: in Canadian law, espionage has a precise mean...
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