Wouldn’t it be nice if the next time a woman received a threatening message on Twitter she could quickly scan the perpetrator’s account to check whether they posted a gloating picture of their new pistol?

Or, in the wake of a shooting, if law enforcement could swiftly search the account of a suspect, to check if they had ever tweeted a picture of the alleged crime weapon?

It’s now possible to do both of these things, thanks to a free, open-source tool designed by security researcher Justin Seitz as a part of his larger open-source intelligence project.

On a wider scale, the technology could be used to analyze the weapons used by large terrorist organizations or gangs. In the past, Seitz has used similar techniques to track the social media profiles of Detroit gang members, and to identify ISIS members on Twitter.

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