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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS Am I supposed to believe we live in a world where this exists, yet carriers are impossi

• robotresearcher 7mo ago
  Of course it's possible to find a giant ship. The interesting parts are that this vector is crazy cheap using public APIs, and the irony of the location source being the voluntary-or-ignorant active telemetry from a US service person. It's possible to go to the moon, launch ICBMs, and make fusion bombs. It's news when something possible gets cheap and easy. It's also newsworthy when one of the most powerful and expensive weapon platforms in history doesn't have its infosec buttoned down.
  • Legend2440 7mo ago
    >It's also newsworthy when one of the most powerful and expensive weapon platforms in history doesn't have its infosec buttoned down. Well, peace makes you sloppy. No one is at war with France right now, and no one is realistically going to attack this ship. If we were fighting WW3, you can bet sailors wouldn't be allowed to carry personal cellphones at all. Back in WW2, even soldier's letters back home had to be approved by the censors.
  • astrobe_ 7mo ago
    Interesting point. On one hand they probably don't care if everyone knows where the carrier is (actually I'm pretty sure every military power knows where the other powers' military is), on the other hand from a "good practices" perspective, it doesn't look good. Would it just be virtue signaling, or is there more to it?