OSINT Discovery of a Public TAK Server During routine OSINT sweeps, Cyber Intel Service identified a publicly accessible Team Awareness Kit (TAK) server containing sensitive geospatial data. The instance was indexed by Shodan, accessible through multiple open ports, and did not require authentication. The server, an OpenTakRouter instance, was hosted on a DigitalOcean cloud server...

In the 1960s, the U.S. government asked a chilling question: How do we keep communication alive after a nuclear strike? The answer became the foundation of the internet as we know it—resilient, decentralized, unstoppable. But somewhere along the way, that vision changed. A Cold War Origin Built on Redundancy No single point of failure: The...