Ignorant vs Sherlock
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About Ignorant
Ignorant is an OSINT tool that allows you to check if a phone number is used on different platforms like Snapchat, Instagram, and other services. Unlike tools that scrape profiles, Ignorant works by using the password reset and account recovery flows of various services, which typically reveal whether an account exists for a given phone number without notifying the account holder. This makes it a passive reconnaissance tool - the target receives no notification that their phone number was checked. Ignorant is written in Python with a modular architecture that makes it easy to add new platform checks. It's particularly useful during the reconnaissance phase of social engineering assessments, missing person investigations, or when building a profile of a target's digital footprint across services.
About Sherlock
Sherlock hunts down social media accounts by username across 400+ social networks simultaneously. Given a username, it queries hundreds of websites to check if an account with that username exists. Results include the profile URLs for any matches found. Sherlock is one of the most popular OSINT tools for username enumeration and is widely used in investigations, background checks, and security assessments.
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