Pattern of Life from Socials

Pattern-of-life analysis turns scattered public posts into a model of where someone is, when, and with whom. It is the most abusable technique in this repo: the same method produces a due-diligence report and a stalking dossier. The difference is authorization and scope, not tradecraft. The beginner error is collecting posts instead of analysing them — screenshots of a feed are not intelligence. Work four layers: account metadata, network, content, temporal behaviour. The first and last are the two everyone skips, and the two the subject can't curate.

Step 1 — Authorized scope

Read ../../ETHICS.md, then write down before opening a single profile: