I know I shouldn’t be surprised, maybe I’m not, but I find it very strange that my opsec is better than people that actually need opsec.
I always think about when Facebook allowed targeting of the us military in Afghanistan.
In 2007 four US Army helicopters were destroyed in Iraq after geotagged photos were posted on the internet.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17311702
Or Strava exposes secret bases
In a series of images, Ruser pointed out Strava user activities potentially related to US military forward operating bases in Afghanistan, Turkish military patrols in Syria, and a possible guard patrol in the Russian operating area of Syria.
https://www.wired.com/story/strava-heat-map-military-bases-fitness-trackers-privacy/
I’m just a rando on the internet who wants to stay off corporate databases as much as possible. Why is this kind of shit obvious to me but not to people whose lives may depend on it?
Holy shit. Of all things, fucking Strava?
Who the hell is logging their excercise data while out at a FOB? Who of those is posting it fucking publicly?
It keeps happening too. That wired article is 2018.
This was published at the end of October
It’s sort of the extreme example of regulations are written in blood.
