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

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/french-naval-officer-fitness-app-breach-1786876

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plyth@feddit.org · 23 pts · 156d (2 replies)

Again and still?

5715@feddit.org · 15 pts · 156d (1 reply)

they never learn

30p87@feddit.org · 2 pts · 156d

Which is good

Jajcus@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 156d (2 replies)

Aircraft Carriers are not very stealth anyway, are they?

stephen@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 155d

No, but the ocean is pretty big.

azimir@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 156d
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azimir@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 156d (1 reply)

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

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases

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

spitard@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 155d

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