French Officer's Jogging App Strava Logs Inadvertently Expose France's Aircraft Carrier 'Charles de Gaulle' Location
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Again and still?
they never learn
Which is good
Aircraft Carriers are not very stealth anyway, are they?
No, but the ocean is pretty big.
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.
I’ve been thinking the exact same thing—military personnel on active duty should flat-out be banned from using smartphones.