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Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by CamperBob2 »

xyzelement wrote: post #438
CamperBob2 wrote: post #296

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who is Iran a proxy for? Russia, as usual, has only benefited from Trump's actions. The one thing you can say about Iran is that they were absolute morons not to actually build or otherwise acquire a nuclear arsenal. They had decades. If Pakistan could do it...

It's such a retarded take that hitting Russia's main ally (iran) is somehow pro-russia. Does taking out their number two ally (Venezuela) also help them?

Russia cares about Iran mainly to the extent it's a thorn in the West's side. They don't care much about Trump's self-inflicted footgunnery, especially because the arms and dollars that we dissipate in Iran won't be available to Kyiv.

If Russia cared that much about Iran, they'd have armed them, and they would making much more noise now. (Somewhat to your point, though, it was Iran who was selling arms and expertise to Russia.)

Describing Venezuela as Russia's #2 ally ahead of countries like China and Belarus is certainly a take. Out of respect for the house rules, though, I won't use the R-word to describe it, however applicable it may be.

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by jwsteigerwalt »

I disagree with the characterization that this is a security flaw unaddressed by Strava. Does anyone (French military in this case) really want Strava to be responsible to decide if the data is from a sailor on a military ship vs. a tourist on a cruise ship. Its operational security and the French military alone is responsible for polices and processes that maintain its security.

The idea that the public profile is the problem is ludicrous. The French military should have a problem with any geolocation data about its deployed sailors ever leaving its own networks.

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by locknitpicker »

roysting wrote: post #489
locknitpicker wrote: post #474

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> how is a submarine commander committing war crimes? News reports from both Russia and Ukraine stated he was the commander of K-148 Krasnodar, a submarine that at the time of his command engaged in missile attacks on Ukrainian cities. From a BBC article: > Ukrainian media has said he could have been in command of the vessel when it carried out a missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia in July 2022, which k…

Who do you see as the “legitimate military target” in America due to America’s war of aggression on Iran? You imply it would be any military officer, anywhere, at any time, retired or not.

> Who do you see as the “legitimate military target” in America due to America’s war of aggression on Iran?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

Also, even Trump himself, when asked about the possibility of Iran conducting attacks on US soil, stated the following:

> "Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die."

So what point do you think you're making?

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by [deleted] »

nradov wrote: post #500
Eisenstein wrote: post #466

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Couldn't they just send a boat/plane/balloon/zepplin with a charger on it out launch the drones from there. The would come back when low on power and recharge in waves. It took me 30 seconds to think of this so I am sure there are a lot of better ideas out there already.

That's not a new idea. In wartime any vessel or aircraft approaching within range to launch missiles or drones will be attacked.

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Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by Schiendelman »

delis-thumbs-7e wrote: post #467

This is always Strava isn’t it? Was it Finnish security services that leaked the exacti location of the president because some of them wanted to share their runs? Why don’t militaries and security services just ban it?

They do ban it. Humans ignore bans. They'd need a comprehensive device restriction - and then they'd somehow have to keep soldiers from keeping a second phone around.

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by roywiggins »

nradov wrote: post #427
roywiggins wrote: post #410

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imho with unusually sensitive things like precise location data it could just not let you opt-in to making it all public, and make it much easier to share with a specific named friends than to share on a public directory

I really don't understand these criticisms of Strava, it has excellent privacy controls so you can share as little or as much as you want. You can already choose to share your activities with only your friends (followers). Or keep your activities private or hide the location data.

I'm saying something a bit different: that even letting people opt in to sharing every run they track publicly is just asking for trouble. It's setting people up for their information to be made public when they forget to turn it off or that they turned it on in the first place.

Maybe "automatically share everything to the globe" should just not be an option for sensitive data like this.

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by roywiggins »

alexfoo wrote: post #478
nradov wrote: post #427

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I really don't understand these criticisms of Strava, it has excellent privacy controls so you can share as little or as much as you want. You can already choose to share your activities with only your friends (followers). Or keep your activities private or hide the location data.

It does but my point is that your settings are applied to all activities. Here's a few examples that might help demonstrate my point: I used to do parkrun regularly. I had no problem sharing my Strava activities for parkrun because me doing it wasn't a secret, nor was the location secret, nor was my time secret. All of these things could be found from the parkrun website once the results had come up. John Doe was at…

Right, requiring human intervention to share a run (other than maybe with eg a specific small circle of mutual friends) seems like it solves all those problems, other than perhaps being annoyed that you forgot to manually share a run.

But at least that's a failure you can fix once you notice, as opposed to making something public that shouldn't have been. Letting people opt in to automatically sharing runs to the public just seems like something designed to get people to share stuff without thinking about it.

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by justsomehnguy »

cwillu wrote: post #171
justsomehnguy wrote: post #112

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And American carriers never operate alone, it's a whole Carrier Battle Group there.

The battle group doesn't cruise around in formation, for specifically this reason.

Ah, yes, Ticonderogas should be so far from the carrier so they couldn't even protect it, despite protecting their carrier is their main duty. Makes sense.
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