orvorn comments on Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours

[–] orvorn@slrpnk.net 14 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I can't believe any military operation allows the use of unsecured phones by personnel. Always blows my mind.

[–] RandomStranger@piefed.social 8 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Military personnel are people too. Regular people. And most of the stuff the do is boring and uninteresting to adversaries. Putting too hard restrictions would just lower morale and risk future recruiting.

So like in any organization you rely on infosec training and hope that it will work. Like in any organization the human factor will cause it to occasionally fail.

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[–] orvorn@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

No amount of infosec training will make your civilian iPhone secure. All I'm saying is that it's weird not to issue secure phones to personnel.

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[–] RandomStranger@piefed.social 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

So you would have governments spend tax money on secure phones for personell to make Instagram posts and browse Pornhub?

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[–] orvorn@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

I wouldn't have governments do anything, except disband and decommission all military assets, but if I were somehow in that position then yes I would recommend providing secure devices. The cost is insignificant - just buy one less fighter jet.

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[–] RandomStranger@piefed.social 1 point 6 months ago

Sounds great. But I suspect the reality is they would be provided by the MIC at €/$10000 a piece, while they can for sure not buy fewer jets. They will happily slash your welfare though to afford it :)

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