Jeff Tiegs, president and founder of Skull Games, discussed how open source intelligence, or OSINT, and military veterans’ intelligence skills could help law enforcement agencies address the problem of commercial sex trafficking.
In an article published on Carahsoft.com, Tiegs cited how a nonprofit organization like Skull Games harnesses OSINT to help “identify women and children who are being trafficked and identify their exploiters.”
“We package up all that information and send it to our law enforcement partners for action,” he added.
The company executive explained how Skull Games’ Survivor-Hunter program supports women who have survived sex trafficking.
“We teach them about OSINT, and they use their knowledge from inside from industry to hunt alongside us, which gives them a sense of empowerment and healing,” he noted.
Tiegs noted that his organization leverages the analytical expertise of military veterans to help break the code that sex traffickers use.
“Once we know the acronyms and the emojis and the way they speak, we are able to unravel who’s doing what, why, when and where, and we can share all that information with law enforcement,” he added.
