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Ukraine Ministry of Digital Transformation (view source)
Revision as of 18:46, February 1, 2024
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Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, was praised by the [[World Economic Forum]] (WEF) for his work, in establishing the Diia app.<ref>https://www.weforum.org/people/mykhailo-fedorov</ref> Fedorov called for a crew of developers, designers, marketers and “security specialists” to join a volunteer “IT Army” — with 300,000 volunteers having been attracted. The online army's tasks include sharing the IP addresses of Russian websites and companies, in order for them to be targeted by [[DDoS]] (directed denial of service) attacks in an effort to knock them offline.
Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, was praised by the [[World Economic Forum]] (WEF) for his work, in establishing the Diia app.<ref>https://www.weforum.org/people/mykhailo-fedorov</ref> Fedorov called for a crew of developers, designers, marketers and “security specialists” to join a volunteer “IT Army” — with 300,000 volunteers having been attracted. The online army's tasks include sharing the IP addresses of Russian websites and companies, in order for them to be targeted by [[DDoS]] (directed denial of service) attacks in an effort to knock them offline.
Fedorov described [[Twitter]] as “part of our war effort.”<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60608222</ref> Fedorov described the digital battlefield as “our home turf,” while ''The New York Times'' also reported on how Fedorov “has turned technology, cryptocurrency and social media into modern weapons of war.” According to the ''Times'', Fedorov stated: “They [the Russians] have failed to notice that… governments must move towards becoming more and more like tech companies, rather than being rigid like a tank, like a war machine.”<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/12/technology/ukraine-minister-war-digital.html</ref>
Fedorov described [[Twitter]] as “part of our war effort.”<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60608222</ref> Fedorov described the digital battlefield as “our home turf,” while ''[[The New York Times]]'' also reported on how Fedorov “has turned technology, cryptocurrency and [[social media]] into modern [[weapon]]s of war.” According to the ''Times'', Fedorov stated: “They [the Russians] have failed to notice that… governments must move towards becoming more and more like tech companies, rather than being rigid like a tank, like a war machine.”<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/12/technology/ukraine-minister-war-digital.html</ref>
=====Hackers and IT specialists=====
''[[The Washington Post]]'' reported that Ukrainian officials ran thousands of facial recognition searches on dead or captured Russian soldiers in the first 50 days of the Russian incursion, using the scans to identify bodies and contact hundreds of families in Russia for what may be "one of the most gruesome applications of the technology to date."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/15/ukraine-facial-recognition-warfare/</ref>
The country's IT Army, a force of hackers and [[activist]]s that takes its direction from the Ukrainian government, says it has used those identifications to inform the families of the deaths of 582 Russians, including by sending them photos of the abandoned corpses.
The Ukrainians champion the use of face-scanning software from the U.S. tech firm Clearview AI. Some military and technology analysts worry that the strategy could backfire, inflaming anger over a shock campaign directed at mothers.
Stephanie Hare, a surveillance researcher in London, said it is “classic [[psychological warfare]]” and could set a dangerous new standard for future conflicts. “If it were Russian soldiers doing this with Ukrainian mothers, we might say, ‘Oh, my God, that’s barbaric.’ And is it actually working? Or is it making them say: ‘Look at these lawless, cruel Ukrainians, doing this to our boys?’ ”
Clearview AI’s chief executive, Hoan Ton-That, told ''The Washington Post'' that more than 340 officials across five Ukrainian government agencies now can use its tool to run facial recognition searches whenever they want, free of charge. Clearview employees held weekly, sometimes daily, training calls over Zoom with new police and military officials looking to gain access. Ton-That recounted several “‘oh, wow’ moments” as the Ukrainians witnessed how much data — including family photos, social media posts and relationship details — they could gather from a single cadaver scan. Some of the Ukraininas used Clearview's mobile app to scan faces while on the battlefield.
==Ukraine aid/2022 Midterm election scandal==
==Ukraine aid/2022 Midterm election scandal==