Ukrainian border guards can use a neural network to track content with tags from Crimea and put Russians who visited the peninsula on a blacklist with a ban on entry into the country. This was stated by criminologist Dmitry Boroshchuk.
“In any case, this is data from open sources, even if we are talking about special software. People post photos with geometries that are parsed by software and correlated with an individual. That is, if we have the keywords “Crimea”, “Yalta” and understand that the user is a subject of a particular state, we can draw the appropriate conclusion,” the expert explained.
Information security expert Georgy Mazokhin added that Ukraine can also receive the necessary data through social networks. According to him, the same photos contain EXIF metadata and coordinates where the picture was taken.
“Even if the image does not have such data, it is possible to calculate the location through triangulation of the terrain — it is technically easy to calculate based on the terrain, time of day, illumination, buildings that surround. There is nothing supernatural about it,” he said.
In turn, the head of the information and analytical research department of T.Hunter, Igor Bederov, said that the Ukrainian police centrally collects data from Russians from social networks, and their law enforcement officers have special programs and voluntary assistants at their disposal.
Bederov believes that this software sorts posts, pictures, and videos by the place of their creation. He added that big data analysis systems, including Maltego or IBM i2, can navigate such volumes of information and make up a complete picture from different sources about each individual. Ukraine can use also geolocation-fixing applications for smartphones.
Recall that in March 2014, according to the results of the referendum, Crimea became part of the Russian Federation. But the Ukrainian authorities and most Western countries have not recognized the Russian status of the peninsula, which is still considered annexed.
