Analyzing PHP BB Forums with YOSE

A lot of user forums on the Darknet are based on the PHPBB platform. As these might contain illegal information or information about criminal activity, law enforcement has the need to analyze the large volume of data inside to find criminals and solving crimes.

Using the latest AI technologies, YOSE is here to help!

Step 1. Get the Data into YOSE

YOSE has built in native support for processing PHP BB Databases. Point YOSE to the PHP BB Database server and have a coffee or ten. YOSE will now read every message and post and make use of the latest Natural Language Processing technologies to produce a giant web of information as well as extracting over 100 different type of intelligence items for you to navigate in. You will be amazed how much information you have at hands after this and how it is easy to navigate and find what you might be looking for.

Step 2. Complete control over all conversions.

Once all data is in, YOSE lets you:

• View all conversations in one single view where you can search or filter across all data in Google speed.
• Classify, Tag or add Notes to the conversations to keep track of which you have been looking into.
• View conversations on a timeline to filter in time
• Provide you with statistics around each conversation to quickly find the most interesting ones to start with.

Combined, this give you complete control over finding the most interesting conversations, even when having huge volumes of data!

Step 3. Read and analyze a conversation

Once you find an interesting conversation; Select it and hit spacebar and you can read the conversation as it was an Whats App Dialogue! Filter by typing in the filter box or by using the time line filter. You can also classify, tag or add notes to each message!

Translate messages

Right click on a message to translate it to one of the 25 supported language. Please note that all translation is done on your system without having to share it with Google.

Hide data in messages

If you choose to classify a message as illegal, it will be pixelated, if you want to share the dialogue with someone else without having to share information in a specific message.

Presenting the conversation step by step

Sometimes when presenting a dialogue, you need to have a very easy way of showing the conversation. YOSE let you use the unique YOSE Conversation Player when presenting to a less experienced audience to make it very easy to follow.

Exporting a conversation

As with everything in YOSE, just click the export button to export what you see on the screen to either PDF, or any other format. This makes it easy to print the dialogue in a very to easy ready way.

Step 4. Use Extracted Intelligence to link conversations

Every message is being processed by the Text Analytics engine, detecting languages, finding emails, bitcoins, urls, organizations, names, telephone numbers... 100+ different types of entities are automatically being recognized inside the forum and messages.

YOSE let you navigate and search in all of these extracted intelligence items and with a right click you can jump straight to the conversations or messages where it was extracted from; simply put: you are taking advantage of the latest technologies to link people and conversations to each other and it is as simple as a right click!

Two distinct different private conversations might share a unique URL or a unique bitcoin. That means that the people involved in the two different conversations share data on another forum.

There are many more things you can do with YOSE to analyze these kinds of forums, email databases or chat logs. If you think this sounds interesting, reach out and we make sure you make the most out of YOSE!