The Unemployed Man Who Hacked Putin's Spy Network
Published February 16, 2026
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An unemployed guy in Leicester (Eliot Higgins) starts verifying war footage for fun… and ends up building Bellingcat, the open-source team that keeps humiliating Russian intelligence. This video walks through the exact moments it flips from "random blogger" to "state-level problem": Syria weapons IDs, the MH17 trail ba…
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- February 16, 2026
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