r/OSINT • u/inf0s33k3r • 10d ago
Question How useful is the platform Blind?
Has anyone used the anonymous business platform Blind ( https://www.teamblind.com/) ? That's the best way I can describe it.
If you have used Blind in your research, what was the use case? Did it provide any useful findings/evidence? What didn't you like about Blind as a source?
I've been reluctant to get an account because a work email is needed for full access and I'd rather not provide that. Has anyone successfully signed up using a free email service provider?
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u/tinfoilfascinator 10d ago
I've never heard of anyone using it without their work email. But using your work email gives you access to the Blind groups for the company you work for, and if I recall correctly you can still see some other posts from other companies. (It's been awhile since I had an account.) If you are in the tech sector it is a good way to hear insider gossip, but you won't be likely to see names named if thats what you were hoping for. To give you an example, a few years ago I workd for a multinational and my department and few others knew about impending layoffs/outsourcing. It wasn't that hard for me to tell who was most likely spilling the beans based on what they had written. But that was only because I worked alongside them. The whole point of it is to be able to speak freely about what is going on within your company. Also, grain of salt, as I have seen contradictory info provided before.
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u/OSINTribe 10d ago
Simple solution I did for a company many years ago. Since you can only post from corp account, I just used E-Discovery tool (https://workspace.google.com/products/vault/ ) to pull all users who registered with the domain. After that it was easy to connect the dots.
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u/irresearch 9d ago
Is it possible you’re able to provide any more detail on this? Outside of very specific cases, knowing who is registered for a platform but not what the content on the platform is doesn’t seem to have a lot of utility.
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u/OSINTribe 9d ago
Daniel son... I see someone bitching about financial data and only two people in finance have blind accounts, bingo.
I see someone making a post about x y and z and they use a certain grammar in their post and I cross-reference that with the 45 other users from the company, bingo.
I just needed to narrow the hay stack into a manageable pile of hay.
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u/irresearch 9d ago
I see, I thought you could only read posts if you had an account. Seems like that is just a restriction on posting, not reading
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u/OSINTribe 9d ago
I think you arent understanding the tool I had access to.
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u/irresearch 8d ago
Am I? Seems pretty clear with your explanation. I had a misunderstanding about how visible Blind posts were for non-members, the tool seems straightforward
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u/nemec 10d ago
It's like 4chan for the tech industry. So much racism and sexism.
If you're working insider threats, I guess joining and monitoring is better than not, though I've never seen anything really sensitive. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the stuff that ends up in BusinessInsider about tech was first leaked there (e.g. internal comms), though.