Trace Labs is a Not-For-Profit organization whose mission is to crowdsource the collection of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) to generate new leads on active missing persons investigations.

The missing persons issue is getting worse and requires modern and scalable solutions at various levels to help mitigate risk to society. The Trace Labs OSINT Search Party CTF platform enables the collection of OSINT to power these crowdsourced community Capture the Flag (CTF) events. These CTF events allow missing persons to receive the attention that is needed early in the search process. Our fully virtual global events run monthly.

For this CTF, several missing persons cases will be selected from around the world for contestants to collect OSINT on to generate new leads.

This isn't a typical "Theoretical CTF" where the flags are already known. All flags found by contestants are treated as new intelligence that can serve as a potential lead for an active missing persons investigation.