The work seems impressive but I think it should be taken with caution. Who is behind this website that he can access Russian databases via "contacts"? Passport databases contain pictures? (I have no idea)
"Bellingcat has contacted confidentially a former Russian military officer of similar rank as Colonel Chepig"
How do you find such people? Soldiers should be a dime a dozen, GRU colonels should be hard to find.
"Bellingcat and the Insider have obtained “Petrov”‘s and “Boshirov”s border crossing data for a number of countries in Europe and Asia, for the period of validity of their international passports (mid-2016 through today). "
Wow.
Man, if the "social network research skills" of Eliott Higgins are for real, I have a few other cases he could dig in.
EDIT: I think I was right being skeptical. As mentioned here, while looking similar, the persons shown in the pics seem not to be identical to me. Can someone confirm this with software? I would be especially interested in the normalized distance between the eyes.
Besides this, he has put a picture online that he obtained illegally and he is violating EU privacy law.
The work seems impressive but I think it should be taken with caution. Who is behind this website that he can access Russian databases via "contacts"? Passport databases contain pictures? (I have no idea)
"Bellingcat has contacted confidentially a former Russian military officer of similar rank as Colonel Chepig"
How do you find such people? Soldiers should be a dime a dozen, GRU colonels should be hard to find.
"Bellingcat and the Insider have obtained “Petrov”‘s and “Boshirov”s border crossing data for a number of countries in Europe and Asia, for the period of validity of their international passports (mid-2016 through today). " Wow.
Man, if the "social network research skills" of Eliott Higgins are for real, I have a few other cases he could dig in.
EDIT: I think I was right being skeptical. As mentioned here, while looking similar, the persons shown in the pics seem not to be identical to me. Can someone confirm this with software? I would be especially interested in the normalized distance between the eyes.
Besides this, he has put a picture online that he obtained illegally and he is violating EU privacy law.