A French aircraft carrier was tracked in real time via a sailor’s Strava activity, exposing a persistent operational security flaw. 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 […]
Strava has to be one of the biggest opsec failures in recent years.
War Thunder would like a word
Someone needs to post this running track on the War Thunder forums and claim that it could’nt be real as the deck is 5m shorter than the distance he ran between turns. They’ll have a full set of blueprints for the ship by lunch time, not to mention classified information about the ship’s speed and manouverability, armaments and navigation to disprove the assertion that it cant go that fast.
So… He must have been using shipboard wifi. I can’t imagine they’re allowing private satellite internet solutions, and phone signals aren’t going to cover very far from shore.
Why would they not block things like Strava at the network level?
This isn’t just an OpSec failure by the sailor, but from whatever team handles shipboard communications as a whole.
I think it’s because of the security equivalent of “regulations are often written in blood”.
Good pace at least
Could work on his elevation gains