Blog
Notes from the trail.
How account lookup works, how to read what it finds, and where the lines are. Written for people who do the work.
Product
What Tracehound is, and how a search works
A plain walkthrough of Tracehound: what happens when you press Search, what a result shows, how leads and Deep Search work, and what we deliberately do not keep.
5 min read
Guide
A practical guide to auditing your own digital footprint
Find the accounts you forgot about, decide what to keep, tighten or close, and limit what lookup tools can return about you. A step-by-step afternoon project.
6 min
Methods
How username enumeration works, and how to read the results
How lookup tools tell whether an account exists, why false positives and negatives happen, why common handles mislead, and why a lead is not an identity.
6 min
Responsible use
Responsible OSINT: the legal and ethical lines
Public does not mean permitted. The FCRA, harassment and stalking laws, data protection, consent and proportionality, and why we offer an opt-out, in plain words.
6 min