INTDB for Linux and Mac OS X

Hey guys

Many of you were asking for a version of INTDB to run in Linux or Mac OS and finally after many days of hard work I could find a way to do it.
Sadly this version won't be portable, but the installation process is short and simple and I wrote an step by step tutorial so you shouldn't have any problem.

This new INTDB version will work using XAMPP that is a multi-platform easy to install and use Apache web server with MySQL, Perl and PHP, although we only will use Apache and Perl to run the INTDB TWiki.

So now there will be two distros of INTDB, those are "INTDB Portable for Windows" and "INTDB4Xampp" for Linux and Mac OS X, both distros will keep the same version number for simplicity.

Besides releasing INTDB4Xampp I'm also releasing today the version 1.2 of INTDB, this new version includes:

• Basic usage & tips guide.
• Google Earth integration example.
• The following cheatsheets:
• Structural Labeling
• Movement speeds
• SALUTE report 
• METT-TC 
• Glossary

The "basic usage & tips guide" will explain you step by step how to create, delete and edit and how to include multimedia files and documents on your pages.

The Google earth integration example will show you a great tip as you can open .kmz files from your pages an see them on Google Earth and when you close it no traces are left of your work in it.

Also 5 new pages are included with cheat sheets that will help you with your intelligence tasks.

As usual you can contact me if you need any help or would like to share templates or ideas.

Wikis and the Intelligence Analysis ebook

http://amzn.com/B0083P8DDA

I just discovered this book called "Wikis and the Intelligence Analysis" dealing with the use of wikis as a tool to work with Intel.

It seems the authors see wikis as a great tool by its usage characteristics that suits perfectly the Intelligence Analysis tasks, I thought it was really cool such a book exists and that maybe it complements itself with the INTDB project I'm sharing in this same blog.

Sadly as the exchange rate here in Argentina is killing me I can't buy a copy to read the book entirely and I was just able to peek it in the Amazon's demo.

If any of you has already read it and can tell me some more about it or would like to donate a copy I'll really appreciate it ;)

INT DB TWiki Update

Hey guys,

INT DB has it's first update, here is the changelog:

• Fixes configure script error.
• Includes ExitPlugin to take care of the referrer problem.
• Cleans up previous session log files on start up.
• Includes security notes in regards to document attachment.
• Includes POI, Enumeration and alphabetically sorted list templates. 

Besides fixing some bugs, the new INT DB TWiki will clean up the log files when you start it and also solves the issue of referrer leakages, using the ExitPlugin it will automatically redirect to any link using anonym.to, you can configure another link anonymizer if you wish.

The screenshot in this post is from the Person Of Interest Template, when you create a new page you'll be asked what template to use, there you can select it or also one of the other two included templates, one is a table to enumerate stuff, like your Intelligence requirements, and the other is an alphabetically sorted table to store links to your POI dossiers for instance.

I'm working on a file so you can install easily the INT DB in an already running TWiki installation, so you can use it in other OSs just installing Apache by yourself, soon there will be news about it.

FULL DOCUMENTATION AND DOWNLOAD LINK HERE

INT DB Portable TWiki

While doing the IPB course at culperinstitute.org I discovered that the amount of information you have to handle to be able to satisfy your intelligence requirements is huge and will require to be updated often.

I didn't find an already existing tool, and that's why I thought that a wiki page could help, because it's easy to update, can include media files and also keeps track of the changes you made, bad thing about a wiki is that it needs a webserver to run, and not tech-savvy guys will find really hard to set up one. INT DB solves that problem because with just one click you'll have a running wiki that leaves no trace of use in your computer.

INT DB is based on TWiki for Windows Personal but it includes the latest version of TWiki 6.0 with WYSIWYG editor, Tinyweb webserver, Perl and GNU Grep, all of it ready to use, no installation is required and it won't create entries in your registry.

You'll see that the INT DB home page is a plain wiki page for you to start working on, if you can create templates, cheat sheets or whatever may be helpful for our purposes, please contact me and I'll include it in a new version.

FULL DOCUMENTATION AND DOWNLOAD LINK HERE