🎭 In his talk “Master of Puppets,” Espen will pull back the curtain on what it really takes to run convincing sock puppets online — from AI-assisted persona building at scale to tailored identities built for infiltration.

For over a decade, he’s searched for missing people worldwide as a personal mission — reuniting more than 25 families.

In his talk, he will show how he uses worldwide databases, Swiss archives, and local authorities to answer deeply human questions.

See you there!

Here’s who will take the stage at our very first conference:
🔍 Finding Missing People - Alexander Wenger
🎧 Audio Forensics in Journalism - Jasmine Jacot-Descombes
🎭 The Master of Puppets - Espen Ringstad
🧠 Biases in OSINT - Jill Wick

More speakers will be announced soon!

See you there!

It’s been amazing to witness how this initiative is growing into a real community. More and more participants are reconnecting from previous events, exchanging ideas, and building something together, one event at a time.

We already have several exciting speakers in the pipeline, and we can’t wait to meet you all in person, exchanging knowledge and experiences in a welcoming and curious community!

More details about the full speaker lineup and ticket availability will be shared in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!

🛰 Episode 3: How tools like Google Maps, and facial recognition can support (or challenge) an alibi and the legal grey zones they introduce: www.duribonin.ch/699-digitale...

⚖️ Episode 4: Turning digital traces into court-proof arguments. What counts as evidence? www.duribonin.ch/701-digitale...

🎧 Episode 1: What are the legal limits of OSINT? From leaked database passwords to accidental access to government group chats: www.duribonin.ch/689-spurensu...

📂 Episode 2: Where can you legally find personal data?
www.duribonin.ch/691-ich-weis...

🙏 We would like to thank everyone who supports us and helps to shape the future of the association.

We wish you a wonderful and sunny weekend.
See you soon!

📲 Finally, we had the opportunity to listen to a fascinating presentation by Keto Schumacher. He gave us a behind-the-scenes look at SRF Data's research "Tracking mobile phones with advertising data".

🦾 Roman Schneider implemented in the past months and introduced yesterday our new association digital member Joe Sint, a Discord bot who will:
-challenge our members with intriguing mysteries, geolocation puzzles
-help create and manage teams for OSINT CTFs
-keep us informed about upcoming events

❤️ We had the pleasure and honour to officially announce Leyla Ciragan as our first Advisory Board member. As we said during the meeting, it was love at first sight. From the moment we met Leyla, she fit in perfectly as a missing piece of the puzzle with her knowledge, attitude and ideas!

Be careful: the event requires tickets and they tend to sell out pretty quickly! If you want to attend, tickets go on sale on Eventbrite on the 3rd of April and usually cost around 20 CHF: www.eventbrite.com/o/trace-labs...