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Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok

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Re: Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok

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Post by warent »

darwingr wrote: post #26

Not just on TikTok, I saw it on YouTube clips from outside the USA. I've know people who've worked on such bases and have heard how strict they were with orders to stop and look away or at the ground when an alarm went off. Well I was pretty surprised to see it and like others, the thought crossed my mind that it wasn't an accident. Furthermore, it looked familiar...I think I saw another diagram picture about a year…

great point, could be some strategic misinformation by the US military creating some bogus video / hoax.

Re: Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok

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Post by Bud »

freeflight wrote: post #24
yellow_lead wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TikTok is singled out here because it was where it was shared. The author would likely also agree to other social media use being banned in the military. >If OPSEC is important, don't let people bring their personal camera phones (or smart glasses or camera enabled watch or whatever other personal surveillance people choose to carry) near whatever you're trying to protect. 100%

> The author would likely also agree to other social media use being banned in the military. Yet the author demands that people should be punished for merely using TikTok, not all social media, even if its use doesn't compromise OPSEC in any way.

Use of TikTok should be punishable, of course, but for reasons of good taste, not OPSEC reasons. ;)

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Post by Johnny555 »

dcow wrote: post #22
Johnny555 wrote: post #17

An OPSEC violation has once again made a case for why using TikTok should be a punishable offense in the military, It's not clear why TikTok is singled out here, this could just has easily been posted to Facebook or Instagram or one of the other myriad of social media platforms, or pushed automatically to someone's open photo album in the cloud. If OPSEC is important, don't let people bring their personal camera phon…

The slant I picked up on is that Chinese authorities operating TikTok is the problem because the president can’t just dial Zuck and say “take that shit down immediately or else”. But in general I agree and find the slant annoying. I do think there is some discussion point buried in here about whether or not it’s strategic for the US to build dependencies on foreign software services… but… not sure if it’s a productiv…

I would assume that once a photo hits any social media, the Chinese and other adversaries (and allies) have already scraped it.

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Post by le-mark »

dogma1138 wrote: post #13
s1artibartfast wrote: post #6

Looks like an X-47 to me. On a side note, somebody just got fired. https://www.rumblerum.com/northrop-grumman-x-47b-uav/

Look at the video it’s definitely not an X-47 it also has a cockpit bulge (the model is upside down for RCS testing).

It definitely has some interesting bulges and the flap at the bottom looks like an odd shape for a landing gear. My guess would be scram jet. What’s more interesting to me is the propulsion. Nuclear salt water rocket seems totally within the realm of current or near current technology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_salt-water_rocket

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Post by marcos100 »

Johnny555 wrote: post #17

An OPSEC violation has once again made a case for why using TikTok should be a punishable offense in the military, It's not clear why TikTok is singled out here, this could just has easily been posted to Facebook or Instagram or one of the other myriad of social media platforms, or pushed automatically to someone's open photo album in the cloud. If OPSEC is important, don't let people bring their personal camera phon…

Strava famously outlined hidden military bases.

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Post by suifbwish »

freeflight wrote: post #21

> An OPSEC violation has once again made a case for why using TikTok should be a punishable offense in the military This could have happened with literally any social media platform. Yet the consequences demanded out of this apparently solely focus on "Chinese government-affiliated platform" and how people in the military should be punished for merely using it . How is that gonna fix the actual problem? Right, it wou…

Its pretty simple really. Just issue the phones with a custom OS that will instantly corrupt the application if it is installed.

Re: Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok

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Post by kindle-dev »

Johnny555 wrote: post #17

An OPSEC violation has once again made a case for why using TikTok should be a punishable offense in the military, It's not clear why TikTok is singled out here, this could just has easily been posted to Facebook or Instagram or one of the other myriad of social media platforms, or pushed automatically to someone's open photo album in the cloud. If OPSEC is important, don't let people bring their personal camera phon…

The TikTok app may have camera access and location access. It could capture images and send them to China when it detects its on a military base without the user even knowing. It’s so annoying to see “what about X” comments on every story with almost no thought put into the response.
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