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French Officer's Jogging App Strava Logs Inadvertently Expose France's Aircraft Carrier 'Charles de Gaulle' Location

Lemmy

Again and still?

they never learn

Aircraft Carriers are not very stealth anyway, are they?

This isn’t the first time something like this happened with Strava and its ilk.

InfoSec is very difficult with unsecured devices collecting local data and sending it to publicly accessible locations.

Data about exercise routes shared online by soldiers can be used to pinpoint overseas facilities

The Guardian

No, but the ocean is pretty big.

This isn’t the first time something like this happened with Strava and its ilk.

InfoSec is very difficult with unsecured devices collecting local data and sending it to publicly accessible locations.

Data about exercise routes shared online by soldiers can be used to pinpoint overseas facilities

The Guardian

I’ve been thinking the exact same thing—military personnel on active duty should flat-out be banned from using smartphones.