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Re: Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok

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Post by arthurcolle »

Miserlou57 wrote: post #90
tablespoon wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I heard on reddit that some thought it could potentially be the fuselage for the new B-21 Raider, the replacement for the B-2 bomber that already kinda looks like a pretty futuristic aircraft. I thought the B-21 was going to be a pretty conservative program, so it's design will mostly follow the B-2's. It's a weird angle, but this doesn't really look like that to me.

Not to mention, the thing on the trailer is tiny. The B-2 is not.

another dude on the same reddit thread said it might be the prop for the spaceplane in Top Gun: Maverick, but the shape doesn't look right

Re: Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok

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Post by xvector »

kyleblarson wrote: post #58

I'm sure it's just because I'm too old to be in the target demographic but 9 times out of 10 when I see a Tik Tok video online (I don't have an account) the level of narcissism and lack of decorum on display is sickening.

In about 5-10 minutes of use, the TikTok algo will nail your preferences and you won't see those videos anymore. It's the most well-tailored social media platform I've seen. Eventually you will only see what gives you positive vibes (or whatever vibes it is you want to chase.)

Re: Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok

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Post by btgeekboy »

kyleblarson wrote: post #58

I'm sure it's just because I'm too old to be in the target demographic but 9 times out of 10 when I see a Tik Tok video online (I don't have an account) the level of narcissism and lack of decorum on display is sickening.

There is far more to TikTok than a lot of the garbage you hear about online. It’s kinda like the Reddit in that regard - the default content sucks, but there’s some decent deep stuff.

Re: Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok

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Post by brian_herman »

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…

Yeah, I am not sure why cameras are even allowed in this area. It doesn't make any sense. It is common in companies with sensitive information to ban the use of snapchat glasses and google glass in their offices.

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Post by [deleted] »

systemvoltage wrote: post #25
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…

That’s the rhetoric. They’re not stupid. They probably already have many measures but they’ll take a serious look at preventing all cellphones from entering the compound now. Publicly they’ll condemn Tiktok.

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Re: Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok

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Post by mdoms »

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…

TikTok was singled out because this is an article about a video that was posted to TikTok. Weird thing to get confused about.

Re: Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok

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Post by jws »

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…

It's not clear why TikTok is singled out here…

Completely unbased in facts, I know nothing factual, but… as a hypothesis…

The government whose laws govern a media sharing service could certainly say "All content generated in this list of geofenced areas must be flagged to the legal observing authority XYZ, even if geotags are not a part of the ultimately published content."

Country A would probably care a bit less about services governed by their own laws. Even if such a secret law existed it wouldn't be used against them.

Whereas Country A might care more about services in adversarial Country B where it can be used to turn an intractable search problem into a targeted search.

Re: Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok

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Post by belltaco »

kyleblarson wrote: post #58

I'm sure it's just because I'm too old to be in the target demographic but 9 times out of 10 when I see a Tik Tok video online (I don't have an account) the level of narcissism and lack of decorum on display is sickening.

Maybe you should get an account, then you'd see things tailored to your taste. TikTok is like blogs, Twitter, Reddit, Discord, YouTube etc. in the sense that what and who you follow makes a huge difference. Curation is the name of the game. And it hands down has the best recommender among all these services.

Re: Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok

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Post by burnished »

kyleblarson wrote: post #58

I'm sure it's just because I'm too old to be in the target demographic but 9 times out of 10 when I see a Tik Tok video online (I don't have an account) the level of narcissism and lack of decorum on display is sickening.

because that drives 'engagement', so it is what naturally rises to the top of the heap. meatier content is less controversial. I'm not a user of TikTok either, but I'm under the impression people make some really impressive/funny/charming little videos to share.
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