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French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure
(securityaffairs.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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Imagine losing a carrier cuz one of the soldiers forgot to read the privacy notice on their smartwatch
Imagine losing a carrier because a major world power's military IT security is so incompetent they're allowing sailors on active deployment to have unfettered internet access.
One of the early successes of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was when they took out a barracks of foreign volunteers because around 40 of them were ex-british soldiers and Russian intelligence linked their phones to historical records collected outside British army bases.
There was a similar incident where they found a sailor on one US Navy ship had their own Starlink terminal because they were broadcasting an SSID. At the end of the day, you can’t fix stupid.
I think this is more of a consequence that the things one buys now aren't only serving their paying customers interest