CSINT
acronym • noun / verb
When someone does an over-the-top digital investigation on a person using semi-technical, hacker-ish methods and then pretends it’s normal. Way past “checking their profile.” Involves cross-platform username hunting, old accounts, leaked info, cached pages, reverse image searches, and exploiting terrible online security — all while calling it “research.” You can give them a nickname of chronicly online stalkers who act like they could hack the NSA.
acronym • noun / verb
When someone does an over-the-top digital investigation on a person using semi-technical, hacker-ish methods and then pretends it’s normal. Way past “checking their profile.” Involves cross-platform username hunting, old accounts, leaked info, cached pages, reverse image searches, and exploiting terrible online security — all while calling it “research.” You can give them a nickname of chronicly online stalkers who act like they could hack the NSA.
“Bro said he ran CSINT on her — meanwhile he just didn’t sleep and found her Spotify.”
“If you call it CSINT instead of stalking, you might be strange.”
“If you call it CSINT instead of stalking, you might be strange.”
by makolise December 23, 2025
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