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RedWeasel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

That is so disturbing and amazing at the same time. Does the US Navy screen their mail for trackers? Other countries. What about the sailors as they board? There was the story about the starlink router on a ship last year I think. So …

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sleepmode@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Recently a Navy carrier’s location was revealed by someone doing laps on their running app.

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- reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Because they didn’t learn from the last time this happened. In 2017.
  
  theguardian.com/…/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away…
  
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  - sleepmode@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Good ol’ Strava and SHODAN constantly revealing how dogshit the US’ Op-sec is.
    
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- onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Soldiers locations have been exposed om the battlefield by dating apps. Yeah, the army doesn’t screen shit.
  
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- paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s a classic one. I’m surprised it’s still happening.
  
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