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French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure (securityaffairs.com)

submitted 4 months ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub [B] to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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A French aircraft carrier was tracked in real time via a sailor’s Strava activity, exposing a persistent operational security flaw. Le Monde revealed that France’s aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle was tracked in real time through an officer’s activity on the Strava app. A sailor unknowingly shared running data from the ship, exposing its location […]

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[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 16 points 4 months ago (1 child)

So... He must have been using shipboard wifi. I can't imagine they're allowing private satellite internet solutions, and phone signals aren't going to cover very far from shore.

Why would they not block things like Strava at the network level?

This isn't just an OpSec failure by the sailor, but from whatever team handles shipboard communications as a whole.

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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 months ago

I think it's because of the security equivalent of "regulations are often written in blood".

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