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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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[–] notabot@piefed.social 1 point 4 months ago

Someone needs to post this running track on the War Thunder forums and claim that it could'nt be real as the deck is 5m shorter than the distance he ran between turns. They'll have a full set of blueprints for the ship by lunch time, not to mention classified information about the ship's speed and manouverability, armaments and navigation to disprove the assertion that it cant go that fast.

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