Michael Bazzell

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Bazzell is a former FBI cybercrime investigator who spent two decades on the Cyber Crimes Task Force developing expertise in open source intelligence (OSINT) and digital investigation techniques. His work appears in the course as a practical manual for understanding operational security and digital privacy—teaching readers the counterintelligence tradecraft used to track people online while simultaneously showing how to evade those same tracking methods. For "Pandaemonium Architecture," Bazzell's dual perspective (as both hunter and guide to evasion) is crucial for examining how surveillance infrastructures work and how subjects might resist algorithmic and investigative visibility in networked systems.

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