Fairy tales about safety: Information leak
Vladimir Bezmaly | 03.03.2017
The call from the Emperor's chancery took Johann by surprise. After all, Friday evening was hardly the height of the work week. But work is work.
- Johann, are you still there?
- Certainly, Mr. Chancellor.
— Think before Monday whether we can do something.
— Social networks are systematically dumping information on various issues, primarily political ones. We need to understand whether this is really being done by different people or whether these are just fake accounts. It would be advisable to track down those who are doing this. Understand, this is an order from the emperor.
- I understand. But you must understand correctly. This is usa whatsapp data work of many months, perhaps years. I will ask questions to representatives of our research department.
- Johann, any human and material resources will be transferred to your disposal, by personal order of the Emperor, in particular, the Institute of Mathematical Linguistics and the Imperial Analytical Bureau are subordinate to you from this moment. Resources, I emphasize once again, any. You can subordinate any people and any units to yourself. As long as we get results.
Six months have passed.
- Mr. Chancellor, we have done what you asked. We have developed a system for analyzing social network texts. It is based on a software package capable of accumulating and analyzing information, establishing relationships between the use of certain logical schemes.
Using this software, it is possible to identify similar texts written by the same author or written according to a certain basic template, and thus identify the structure of the information leak.
In fact, we will be able to identify and build systems of connections between bots, and also, based on analysis, determine that this is not a real person, but just a bot.