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hi everyone and welcome back to this
series on how to do open-source
investigations from home I'm Ben and
this is part 21 so let's get
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started in this session we're going to
look at Google's image source search
this is an addition to the Google image
reverse search and it's relatively new
for Google applications and allows us to
actually look for the exact image and
where it was taken from and so this is
really helpful because it allows you to
trace the exact source of an image and
see when it was uploaded and where it
was uploaded and who or what uploaded it
which is really helpful in this day and
age when we're looking at that Trust of
images and information online and
especially social media to look at how
this tool is beneficial for uncovering
new information we're going to use some
examples from X forly known as Twitter
and specifically we're going to look at
some images that have been uploaded on
that social media platform and how we
can find out extra information thanks to
that Google image source search that we
have available to
us the first example that we're going to
look at is this post from the US Air
Force on this aircraft that we see in
the images here I'm going to open up
this image and I'm going to save it so
that we can run it in Google lens and
have a look at a little bit more
information around this image on the
Google homepage I'm able to click search
by image and I'm going to upload that
image that I saved from the platform
there what that's done is it's allowed
me to search for similar images of the
same aircraft on the internet while I
see some similar images on the right I
want to find where else the exact image
has been uploaded and I can see that by
clicking on find image source what this
does is it shows me where the exact same
image has been uploaded and how many
days ago and I can also click on these
links to open them up and find out a
little bit more context about those in
the second example we're going to have a
look at this tweet by the deputy
secretary of
defense this is a really interesting one
because it shows what appears to be lots
of drones and it's a tweet about
autonomous systems note that this was
posted on August 28th
2023 and this is looking at the future
of autonomous systems again I'm going to
do the same process by saving the image
going into my Google and uploading that
image we can see that it's not the first
time it's been uploaded and hey we even
have other images too so that becomes
really helpful because we get to even
find out other images and if we were
doing G location of this image we now
have buildings as well as the mountains
by clicking that find image source we
can also see where else it was uploaded
and what dates now remember the image
that we were looking at was uploaded on
August 28th
2023 and while that image was from
2023 we actually see the same image in
2022 as well it appears to be from an
event that may have been in
2019 and we even have a location there
at the National Training Center on May
8th
2019 so there you have it that's a very
very useful tool that's come out by
Google that allows you to verify exactly
where an image that you may have found
on the internet and verify where it came
from and where it was originally
uploaded and even more importantly in
some cases when it was uploaded as well
I hope you enjoyed this session and I
hope you found it useful if you've come
across any images that you've been able
to find the source of that might be
different and you've used something like
the Google find image source please do
pop it in the comment section below and
also feel free to share this with a
colleague that might find it useful
otherwise I'll see you in the next
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session