open sources

Investigative articles by our partners:

• amaBhungane
• Right2Know publications
• OSF, ‘Corporate war crimes’
• Sherpa, ‘Lafarge sued for financing ISIS’
• Corruption Watch UK, ‘The Anglo-Italian job’
• Human Rights Watch, ‘Israeli banks profit from settlements’

Below are some of the databases and tools you can use to conduct online investigations.

• 10 Investigative Tools You Probably Haven’t Heard Of
• OCCRP offshore leaks database
• ICIJ offshore leaks database
• ICIJ tools and training
• Trial Watch profiles
• Bellingcat open source investigations

At Open Secrets, we rely on a variety of digital security tools to do our work. Below you will find some of those that we use on an everyday basis.

• GPG email encryption
• Signal secure text messaging
• Security in a box 
• TOR secure browser