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Tymofiy Mylovanov

@Mylovanov

Jun 9 • 9 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X

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Russia shut down part of the secret surveillance system guarding Putin and his inner circle.

Engineers switched it back on only after sealing it off from the internet.

Russia acted after Israel used AI on Iranian cameras to find and kill Khamenei — FT. 1/

Israeli intelligence harvested footage from thousands of Iranian traffic cameras to pin down a February 28 meeting of Ayatollah Khamenei and his closest aides. Several top security officials died in the opening strike of the US-Israel war.
AI parsed millions of hours of video to isolate the targets from the crowd. 2/

Alexander Bortnikov, FSB director, told regional security chiefs on May 26 that Russia's own surveillance apparatus had turned into a weakness its enemies could exploit.
Bortnikov: The victims' locations were identified, in part, through software backdoors in Tehran's video surveillance systems. 3/

The visual power of AI jumped around 2023 and again a year ago. It now runs language-based searches on raw video, far beyond facial recognition or number-plate tracking.
Officers can hunt for two men handing over a bag, or a car freshly repainted and circling the same spot. 4/

Matan Goldner, CEO of Tel Aviv startup Conntour: This is the first time in history we can communicate with computers, using language, about what they see. 5/

Ukraine's intelligence has already penetrated traffic cameras inside Russia and used phone-location data to kill senior Russian officers in the heart of Moscow.
Investigators blame Ukrainian services for the December 2025 car bomb that killed Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov. 6/

Cameras in Moscow, and even around the Kremlin, are still working and regularly hacked.
A Five Eyes security official: They're the ones putting the cameras up. All we have to do is find a way in. And there is always a way in. 7X

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