Palo Alto programmers set up a victim identification app
Palo Alto programmers set up a victim identification app
The FindMe app, set up by a team of programmers from the American information security company, was immediately put into use by the security forces and greatly assisted in identifying the many victims
On October 7, hours after the deadly terrorist attack on Israel, the chaos contained great confusion and a sense of helplessness, especially in light of the inability to identify a significant portion of the victims' bodies. In the midst of all the chaos, a team of programmers from Palo Alto, led by programmer Reuven Zolotarevsky created the FindMe app, which until now has helped the police identify dozens of murdered people.
That same Shabbat, Zolotarevsky recognized the great difficulty faced by the security forces and established, together with about 15 other programmers from the company, the app, which is actually the search engine that makes it easier to identify spaces. The app, which Reuven began working on on Saturday, went live on Tuesday, October 10.
The app allows security forces in the field to enter identifying details that appeared on the victims – tattoos, piercings, clothing items, etc. and cross-references the information with public details that the families uploaded online or passed on to the police themselves. Currently, this tool is used by both the army and the IDF.
Now, the company wants to expand the search engine even further in order to make it easier to identify the bodies that the families have not yet identified. Details can be filled in on the website>>
