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Along with the Strava secret base location leak, another interesting one was the ship with a contraband Starlink: As the Independence class Littoral Combat S

by adolph 7mo ago

Along with the Strava secret base location leak, another interesting one was the ship with a contraband Starlink: As the Independence class Littoral Combat Ship USS Manchester plied the waters of the West Pacific in 2023, it had a totally unauthorized Starlink satellite internet antenna secretly installed on top of the ship by its gold crew’s chiefs. That antenna and associated WiFi network were set up without the knowledge of the ship’s captain, according to a fantastic Navy Times story about this absolutely bizarre scheme. It presented such a huge security risk, violating the basic tenets of operational security and cyber hygiene, that it is hard to believe. https://www.twz.com/sea/the-story-of-sailors-secretly-installing-starlink-on-their-littoral-combat-ship-is-truly-bonkers https://www.twz.com/sea/the-story-of-sailors-secretly-instal...

ninalanyon 7mo ago
Was anyone disrated for that quite blatant disregard for naval discipline?
- adolph 7mo ago
  Yes, from the article: The chief who set up the WiFi network, dubbed “STINKY,” definitely knew better. Then-Command Senior Chief Grisel Marrero’s “background is in Navy intelligence, and she earned a master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in information security and digital management, according to her biography,” Navy Times noted. She was later convicted at court-martial earlier this year on charges related to the scheme. For people who are unaware, "STINKY" was the default wifi ssid for at least a time. [0] It is a very distinct ssid, which plays into the discovery of the illicit Starlink: [1] Sailors on the ship then began finding the STINKY network and asking questions about it. Some of these questions came to Marrero directly, but she denied knowing anything about the network… and then privately changed its Wi-Fi name to “another moniker that looked like a wireless printer—even though no such general-use wireless printers were present on the ship, the investigation found.” 0. https://www.rvmobileinternet.com/did-your-starlink-just-become-stinky/ https://www.rvmobileinternet.com/did-your-starlink-just-beco... 1. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/sailors-hid-an-unauthorized-starlink-on-the-deck-of-a-us-warship-and-lied-about-it/ https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/sailors-hid-an-unau...
  - ninalanyon 7mo ago
    She didn't learn much in her > master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in information security and digital management Surely at a bare minimum the access point should not have been broadcasting its SSID.

by adolph 7mo ago

ninalanyon 7mo ago

Was anyone disrated for that quite blatant disregard for naval discipline?

adolph 7mo ago
Yes, from the article: The chief who set up the WiFi network, dubbed “STINKY,” definitely knew better. Then-Command Senior Chief Grisel Marrero’s “background is in Navy intelligence, and she earned a master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in information security and digital management, according to her biography,” Navy Times noted. She was later convicted at court-martial earlier this year on charges related to the scheme. For people who are unaware, "STINKY" was the default wifi ssid for at least a time. [0] It is a very distinct ssid, which plays into the discovery of the illicit Starlink: [1] Sailors on the ship then began finding the STINKY network and asking questions about it. Some of these questions came to Marrero directly, but she denied knowing anything about the network… and then privately changed its Wi-Fi name to “another moniker that looked like a wireless printer—even though no such general-use wireless printers were present on the ship, the investigation found.” 0. https://www.rvmobileinternet.com/did-your-starlink-just-become-stinky/ https://www.rvmobileinternet.com/did-your-starlink-just-beco... 1. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/sailors-hid-an-unauthorized-starlink-on-the-deck-of-a-us-warship-and-lied-about-it/ https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/sailors-hid-an-unau...
- ninalanyon 7mo ago
  She didn't learn much in her > master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in information security and digital management Surely at a bare minimum the access point should not have been broadcasting its SSID.