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Recon on Trial: The OSINT Operator's Legal Playbook
Recon Village @ DEF CON 34 • August 7-9, 2026
12:00 PM – 12:30 PMSunday, August 9DEF CON Creator Stage 5
Abstract
You scrape a public site. You enumerate subdomains. You grep GitHub for secrets. You curl a misconfigured API. Each one touches a statute. Some have been to the Supreme Court. Most operators don't know which is which — until the preservation letter arrives. A federal-court-qualified expert witness (U.S. v. Sullivan) walks through five live OSINT techniques with real-time legal annotation. Zero lawyer-speak. GitHub release included.