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US military officials used China-linked promotional gift shop GS-JJ, exposing over 300K emails (cybernews.com)

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[–] Cheradenine 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I know I shouldn't be surprised, maybe I'm not, but I find it very strange that my opsec is better than people that actually need opsec.

I always think about when Facebook allowed targeting of the us military in Afghanistan.

In 2007 four US Army helicopters were destroyed in Iraq after geotagged photos were posted on the internet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17311702

Or Strava exposes secret bases

In a series of images, Ruser pointed out Strava user activities potentially related to US military forward operating bases in Afghanistan, Turkish military patrols in Syria, and a possible guard patrol in the Russian operating area of Syria.

https://www.wired.com/story/strava-heat-map-military-bases-fitness-trackers-privacy/

I'm just a rando on the internet who wants to stay off corporate databases as much as possible. Why is this kind of shit obvious to me but not to people whose lives may depend on it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Holy shit. Of all things, fucking Strava?

Who the hell is logging their excercise data while out at a FOB? Who of those is posting it fucking publicly?

[–] Cheradenine 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

It keeps happening too. That wired article is 2018.

This was published at the end of October

https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-unknown-agents-use-fitness-app-loophole-to-track-israeli-troops-on-bases/

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2024-10-29/ty-article-magazine/.premium/intelligence-operation-collected-information-on-sensitive-israeli-bases-soldiers/00000192-d7bb-df2b-a5db-d7bf8d440000

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