Posted on Jul 10, 2018
Fitness App Reveals Top Secret Military Movements
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After GPS company Strava Labs revealed sensitive data U.S. military operations through a fitness tracking tool eralier this year, another exercise app has been found describing the patterns of soldiers and government agents. This time it's the activity tracker Polar, through which a Dutch newspaper was able to find the exact movements and locations of U.S Secret Service officers, NSA agents, the British MI6 and a host of international secretive agencies.
Fitness App Reveals Top Secret Military Movements
Posted from popularmechanics.com
OPSEC
Fitness
Technology
GPS
Cybersecurity
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Technology is a wonderful thing. How many of us carry an Android, iPhone or even a Windows mobile device? All of them track location. And if any of us put on any fitness apps, all of them are tracked - in the public cloud! This does not surprise me in the least.
Until there is a proven secure cloud for government employees, including military, and you are issued a mobile device that is 100% secured, this is going to continue to be a huge leak in security. If I worked on a secret base, I could never have a public mobile device. Even if I left it at home every day, it is still tracking the location of the device. Enough info is available to intuit locations of "secure sites".
Until there is a proven secure cloud for government employees, including military, and you are issued a mobile device that is 100% secured, this is going to continue to be a huge leak in security. If I worked on a secret base, I could never have a public mobile device. Even if I left it at home every day, it is still tracking the location of the device. Enough info is available to intuit locations of "secure sites".
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