French newspaper Le Monde was able to locate a French aircraft carrier in real time using publicly available profile information of a French Navy officer on the fitness app Strava.
Catastrophic OPSEC failure on the officer’s part, absolutely; dont track & share location data while deployed, dummy
But also… do sailors gets cell reception in the middle of the Mediterranean?
A reasonable person can ask why French officers on a military operation even have the capability to leak sensitive intel in this way lol - do the French offer satellite-based WiFi hotspots on their ships, institute 0 firewall filters, and assume no intel will be leaked??
I think his C.O. and the training/OPSEC of the French military is to be blamed more. That’s where the buck stops.
Apparently lol
Reminds me of when some US Navy officers got caught having sneaked an unsecured Starlink satellite dish onto a warship.
https://apnews.com/article/navy-illegal-wireless-internet-534007ea8b374bce3189c42449902b2c
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/sailors-hid-an-unauthorized-starlink-on-the-deck-of-a-us-warship-and-lied-about-it/
I get that these are two different issues, but I think it just goes to show how difficult it is to mandate strict digital opsec in such large and bureaucratic organizations.