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I have to think it's along the lines of the Strava fitness app data used to create a heat map of the positions of US military personnel. Only a lot, lot worse.
by ourmandave 4y ago
I have to think it's along the lines of the Strava fitness app data used to create a heat map of the positions of US military personnel.
Only a lot, lot worse.
- warner25 4y agoI believe this is the answer. I'm a career military officer, but without any inside knowledge, and the most troubling "red team" ideas that I've read involve an adversary targeting our troops and families in their ordinary lives at home, where we're soft targets. Troops accept the fact that they might be told to put themselves at-risk overseas, but they expect that their spouses and children will be safe in their own neighborhoods, that their utilities will keep working[1], that their identities and bank accounts won't be stolen, etc. We go after terrorists and insurgents the same way by learning their social networks and patterns of life. I'm sure that we wish we had stuff on our adversaries like the data from the OPM breach[2], the Strava fitness data, or the kind of data that TikTok can collect on their phones. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34474946 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34474946 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
- david_allison 4y agoIt can get much worse: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/05/28/us-soldiers-expose-nuclear-weapons-secrets-via-flashcard-apps/ https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/05/28/us-soldiers-expos...
- rchaud 4y agoMilitaries have extremely rigid rules about personal electronics for this reason. But this isn't about the military, this is about a national ban for everybody.