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
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/french-naval-officer-fitness-app-breach-1786876
7 Comments
plyth@feddit.org · 23 pts · 156d
Again and still?
5715@feddit.org · 15 pts · 156d
they never learn
30p87@feddit.org · 2 pts · 156d
Which is good
Jajcus@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 156d
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
azimir@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 156d
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.