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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 because a major world power's military IT security is so incompetent they're allowing sailors on active deployment to have unfettered internet access.
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.
Worse than stupid: criminal.
I think this is more of a consequence that the things one buys now aren't only serving their paying customers interest
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.