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Well, hold on a second. A lot of these people aren't in active combat, they're troops stationed in places like Syria or Jordan, and then shuffled away from thei

Well, hold on a second. A lot of these people aren't in active combat, they're troops stationed in places like Syria or Jordan, and then shuffled away from their bases when they're legitimately threatened: https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-threatens-target-syrian-hotels-part-war-us https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-threatens-target-syrian-ho... Those people will be carrying around their phones, browsing TikTok and texting loved ones. That creates a lot of commercial advertising data that can be trivially filtered to create a rough targeting fix. It's not even RF leakage in many situations.

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tencentshill 5mo ago
How much could it possibly cost to give every servicemember a dumbphone or even a hardened smartphone like their officers are required to use? Was the option of taking away an 18-year old's personal cell phone determined to impact recruitment numbers too much? "Join the army! but no Instagram" might actually cause young men to say no in 2026.
- Bender 5mo ago
  If no phone is such a risk then use war powers to seize any company tracking any cell phone anywhere. Liquidate it. Use half of the funds for pizza for the troops. Use the other have as incentive to make this happen. If the company is out of reach of the US or not cooperating, bring democracy to them and liberate their resources.
  - toomuchtodo 5mo ago
    O Captain My Captain.