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 in the Mediterranean. The French sailor’s public Strava profile, set as “public,” revealed the near real-time location of the aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean, near Cyprus and Turkey.
I remember working in military intelligence, and the number of people who couldn’t understand why they couldn’t keep track of their steps with a fit bit while on duty was disheartening. Opsec has been nearly dead for a decade plus at this point.
I also remember one mission where I started tracking Isis local leaders just using open information because they were playing Pokemon Go in Iraq.
