Context is Evidence: Investigating a Leak with OpenAleph
This time, we’re tracing people, products and potential customers through a 250GB leak from Hacking Team.
2026
Exploring OpenAleph: A Practical Guide to Investigations
Starting with a single sanctioned vessel, we follow the connections to uncover a wider network and show how OpenAleph helps researchers find leads and make connections across datasets.
OpenAleph 5.3: Email threads, Table exploration and Entity Screening
Our newest release includes three new features for researchers and many small bugfixes and improvements.
How to Use the New Screening Feature
A deep dive into the new percolation feature to surface hidden entities and why it can be called "reverse search".
OpenAleph 5.2.1: Taking Translations a Step Further
This minor release improves the document translation feature. OpenAleph now allows users to set the source language for a document, and language detection is more efficient as well.
In-Platform Translation for Sensitive Documents
OpenAleph 5.2 ships with a local translation service
OpenAleph 5.2: Strengthening Email and Breaking Language Barriers
This release focuses on two major improvements: making email ingestion more reliable and introducing secure, local document translation. It also includes a UI glow-up, so OpenAleph is looking fresher than ever.
When Emails Get Complicated: 5.2 Handles It
How we found out and fixed the discrepancies between a RFC and the real world
The Damascus Dossier: Getting information from 100,000 photos without looking at them
How we got information from 100,000 photos without looking at them.