Hetherington Group

Discovered the Hetherington Group and found out they offer an academy for OSINT training jointly with a college. This seems really compelling and may be more affordable than the SANS 497 course. SANS 497 is prohibitively expensive going for $8500. It is like they are actually trying to make money. Given my penurious existence there is little chance I can afford to take this course and may have to go another route like self-study or scrap together enough to get myosint training which is another learning platform for OSINT. I really wish Maltego's software was more affordable too. There seems to be huge business contracting with the government that can pay premium for OSINT products. DATASTORE from ICIJ looks to be good software to create a database of documents to easily review in bulk. Also Hunchly is another product that is affordable for OSINT research at $100 dollars a year when compared to Maltego's $5500 yearly license. You would think if you are paying $5500 for software you would own the rights to the software instead of merely a yearly license. I guess that is the new format for software where you do not own the software that runs on your computer. It is like computer games where you do not own the computer game anymore but merely the right to play it off of game platforms like Steam. I wish the world went the way of Richard Stallman and provided free software as in freedom? Open source? Apologies for the inane digression my dear reader I am but another fool online trying to write a blog to document my learning journey.