French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure

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French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure - Lemmy NZ

Lemmy

Imagine losing a carrier cuz one of the soldiers forgot to read the privacy notice on their smartwatch
Imagine losing a carrier because a major world power’s military IT security is so incompetent they’re allowing sailors on active deployment to have unfettered internet access.
I think this is more of a consequence that the things one buys now aren’t only serving their paying customers interest
There was a similar incident where they found a sailor on one US Navy ship had their own Starlink terminal because they were broadcasting an SSID. At the end of the day, you can’t fix stupid.
After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship

To be fair, it's hard to live without Wi-Fi.

Ars Technica
One of the early successes of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was when they took out a barracks of foreign volunteers because around 40 of them were ex-british soldiers and Russian intelligence linked their phones to historical records collected outside British army bases.