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 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 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.
@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.
