LOL not like spy satellites can't already tell everything.
Secret Azn Man wrote:
LOL not like spy satellites can't already tell everything.
No need for spy satellite, when so many are begging to sell the Russians info.
"Hold on somebody's banging on my door"
Mmmmm....sometime in the last two years there may or may not have been American soldiers on a dusty back road in Afghanistan.
The Army needs to consult Kilian Jornet: he summits mountains but his GPS data show him as elsewhere.
Much of this is goofballs and military want to be types using the fake gps location apps.. The author did not bother to do much research.
It's one of the lead stories on this morning's Today show. Strava is getting a bit of a beatdown.
KudzuRunner wrote:
It's one of the lead stories on this morning's Today show. Strava is getting a bit of a beatdown.
Why is Strava getting the beatdown? They are just publishing the data...
Of course people blame Strava though. With our military industrial complex and putting everyone that is in the military or associated with it on such a pedestal, people refuse to acknowledge or believe the truth: People, including our military leaders, are not always the brightest. You thought that your GPS enabled device and uploading information to a third-party site wasn't ever going to get published? Geezus, once it's on their servers, they are free to do with it whatever they please.
Secret Azn Man wrote:
LOL not like spy satellites can't already tell everything.
The Taliban, ISIS, Al Qaeda, etc. don't have spy satellites. A huge part of operational security is protecting troops from terrorist attacks.
DoD will need to update OPSEC training, especially for those deploying in these hostile zones to make the troops aware of the issue of uploading their GPS data.
Liberal media endangering the life of our soldiers. Who would have thought?
The real question is whether or not the segments out there are flagged as "dangerous."
Uuuuyyy wrote:
Liberal media endangering the life of our soldiers. Who would have thought?
Hell with GPS , most of these feckin' millenials post their whereabouts on Facebook ad Twitter, 100 times a day.
Uuuuyyy wrote:
Liberal media endangering the life of our soldiers. Who would have thought?
Liberal media like Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/01/29/fitness-tracking-data-on-strava-app-reveal-us-military-bases-details-sparking-security-concerns.htmlBut point taken.
Someone like Russia or China who has a spy satellite is not the likely threat to US forces in Afghanistan. The threat is from guerrillas and the like who may have access to the Internet.
Clearly, the military needs to give much stronger guidance about uploading GPS location data even if it's anonymized before being made public. There are also likely civilian contractors or others who may just be ignorant about the implications of their actions. Facebook, social media, and the worldwide availability of the Internet are already a huge source of leaks.
During WWII, the Chicago Tribune published a story giving away the fact that the US had broken Japanese codes leading up to the Battle of Midway. It was a huge security breach. However, since the Japanese had no access to the Chicago Tribune, they never read the article and never knew their codes had been broken. Security through obscurity no longer works.
The real reason this is a problem is not because of guys jogging around in the Afghan wilderness, but jogging around in Syria or other sovereign countries where it is typically though of as an act of war to station your troops sans an invitation from the government of said country.
Be at war but pretend not to be at war.
Has anyone asked Paul Chelimo how he tracks his runs?
Secret Azn Man wrote:
LOL not like spy satellites can't already tell everything.
The Taliban does not have satellites....
Interesting.
https://vitals.lifehacker.com/how-to-keep-strava-from-telling-everyone-where-you-live-1822516959
Strava's like all the social media companies-they intentionally make it hard to protect your privacy.
The bad guys have all the information they need after the previous Secretary of State and Commander in Chief exchanged emails on her private email account and server while she was on the soil of an adversary according to a recently released memo by J. Comey, leading him to conclude that the bad guys were able to access our sensitive foreign policy info.
You think the terrorists don’t know where all our military bases are? It’s not hard to follow and see trucks, tanks, large warehouse buildings, and supply drops in the middle of a desert.
You know why they’ve never attacked a military base? Because they’d never get close to the gate.
This story is significantly overblown. You guys swear we are at war with an organized nation. Nope, we are war with suicide bombers who can’t put together a tactical attack if their lives depended on it.