"Set up long before the war": through which applications Russians monitor the Armed Forces smartphones

The invaders see the location and routes of the Ukrainian military on the maps thanks to GPS-data, which secretly send different applications on mobile phones. Many applications on smartphones can send data to Russia and publish where the Ukrainian military is at the front. The serviceman and communication specialist Sergei Bez -Kindnov with the flash call sign on his Facebook page told what programs should be removed from the gadgets in order not to issue a location.

According to the expert, any program can potentially send data to the servers of its developers with user coordinates. Some soldiers still have Russian programs that may seem harmless, such as a Uber taxi order, 2GIS cards, Yandex, video games at first glance. "You put them long before the full -scale war and do not know that they are standing. In proof, he posted screenshots of posts in one of the Russian Telegram channels, which are attached to labels.

It is written as if they were the routes of the Ukrainian military according to the GPS satellite system. The Russians see Yandex services, where smartphones often move near the robot, Avdiivka, Orikhov. Thanks to this, they evaluate logistics, learn the positions of "glutchilk", near which the drones get out of the course, and receive other valuable information. "Roughly speaking, these are all the services that have at least one Yandex application.

This applies to Yandex-Taxi and possibly Uber," Russian sources write. Sergei Beskrestnov added in the comments that many military people in Ukraine like to use the Maps. Me app, which is completely a Russian project. According to Wikipedia, it was developed by Mapswithme with the head office in Switzerland and the development center in Belarus. In 2014, the project was bought by Russian Mail. ru Group, which sold it in 2020 to the South Korean Daegu Limited. The latter is included in parity.

com Group, which provides instant money transfers - its founders are Viktor Mangazev and Alex Grebnyov, writes VC. ru. One of the commentators noted that he recently purchased a Nokia Finnish brand and found Yandex applications installed on it, although the seller and localization - Ukrainian. Others write that Chinese Xiaomi sins the same. Vitaliy Rusyn-Ukrainian user proposed to ban any smartphones in the war zone and transfer the military to button phones.

Sergei Flash stated that this is a bad exit, since such means of communication used by 2G networks will be guaranteed to be detected drones of the Russian complex "Leer-3". "If the smartphone see its 3G/4G network, then" Leer "will not drag it to itself, and the button is 2G 100% taken away," he said. Earlier, they wrote how the Leer-3 complexes are bearing the phones of the Armed Forces.

They consist of 2-3 reconnaissance UAVs "Orlan-10" and KAMAZ trucks, which are installed transmitters with antennas, power supply system and space for operators. On board "Orlan" are a false base station of communication, the signal of which moves the towers of cellular operators. And then the mobile phone connects to the network and registers in it, the military sees the network, but can not call anywhere.