No one could have possibly seen this coming except for the many people documented in this story who saw this coming.
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@evacide the undermining of the defensively aligned parts of the NSA by the surveillance hungry rest of it is going to keep biting us on the ass for decades. Even if everyone came to Jesus now it will take a long time to harden and update old systems.
Also it's just offensively wasteful that we did stuff like invent Tor, decide it was too good at doing its job, then invest in sabotaging our own creation. The defensives were right all along, your ambitions of supremacy are illusions.
@evacide I know in Ukraine there have been a number of instances of one side's ill-advised cell phone use quickly turning into the other's artillery or drone targeting coordinates.
A continuing surprise. American intelligence agencies, 5 or 6 out of the top 6 or 7, are run by the Pentagon, must themselves exploit this data when it comes from allies and foreign adversaries.
If they can't, it's because they have taken steps to prevent that data from being collected.
FFS.
@evacide our enemies in Afghanistan sure as fuck knew that. If you lit up a phone in the kill zone you were dead.
@evacide I was deployed 19 and 20 years ago, and we weren't allowed to bring our cell phones with us, which weren't even smart phones at the time. I don't know why they started allowing troops to bring their phones later, especially after they started having GPS in them.
@evacide We're moving to a police state. Hopefully, I won't be here much longer due to age. I do not want to see this happen even more.
@evacide Our government would love nothing more than for someone to attack us.
@evacide It's almost like saving and sharing this data should just be illegal across the board... 🤔
I swear I remember a story about this long ago.
Tells a lot about how citizens' privacy matters, don't it.
@tomjennings Are you thinking of the story about Strava run data giving away the location of US military bases?
@evacide @tomjennings wasn't there a French carrier also spotted via the sport trackers on the way to Cyprus or something?
@evacide @tomjennings A bit over a year ago, a Dutch broadcaster reported on their research on soldiers that transmitted personal data while using Strava. They collected data of 900 soldiers within an hour.
@evacide @tomjennings A bit over a year ago, a Dutch broadcaster reported on their research on soldiers that transmitted personal data while using Strava. They collected data of 900 soldiers within an hour.
This could be my befuddled memory.
@evacide @tomjennings that's the one I immediately thought of at least. Lovely graphic of the perimeter of a base in Afghanistan IIRC.
I'm pretty sure it involved service-folk carrying commodity mobile phones, spraying all their data in the air as they do.
@tomjennings If you find it, please share the link. I am always searching for more examples.
