During a penetration testing engagement, you are tasked with gathering open-source intelligence (OSINT) on a client's domain to identify email addresses and employee names which could later be used for a social engineering attack vector. Which command line tool would be most effective for searching publicly available information to accomplish this task?
theHarvester is a command-line tool used for gathering open source intelligence (OSINT), especially useful for collecting email addresses, employee names, hostnames, and other valuable data from different public sources. This makes it an effective tool for the described scenario, as it helps in identifying potential social engineering attack vectors.
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