Comment on Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says.

• j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Trump is such an incompetent clown that he has a comedian thrash on US citizens in a US territory as a bigoted racist warm up act for his rallies. What do you think.

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Trump is not responsible for his security though, secret service is. Would think that those guys would know to not wear random trackers with them

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    • Bridger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pretty sure the secret service is responsible for protecting Trump. The rest of his campaign security is the job of the campaign, which is famously cheap.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And it’s in the Secret Service’s interest to have certain rules for any additional security operating an an event they’re responsible for protecting. That’s literally their job…

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    • Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m not sure if it’s still valid, but there was that whole debacle where he fired every secret service agent except for ones that backed him politically.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Would you think those guys would know to do something about a dude on a roof with a rifle?

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      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Maybe, having worked closely enough with Trump to have an even better idea of who he is than most, it was a choice rather than incompetence.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What does that have to do with the French newspaper Le Monde?

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    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You think the rest of the world doesn’t follow the news when a lunatic is in the run with an actual chance of getting elected?
      Turns out we have journalists, in France!

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    • raynethackery@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t know. I don’t read Le Monde.

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The article noted that the agents can’t use their personal devices while on duty but of course they can while they are off duty. It mentioned that one of the guards took a jog while off duty, but that jog was from the hotel the President was staying at.

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  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Still the agents mistake.

    They could set the start/finish area to be masked, they could set their run info as private, they could have just the run stats (but no GPS) shared, etc.

    This isn’t a strava issue, just Secret Service Agents being bad about Secrets when doing their Service.

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    • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They should definitely know better, especially as a few years ago it was in the news how you could map some US bases by the runs that soldiers were doing

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• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why would they let bodyguards use tracking apps? Are we really that bad at opsec?

  Wrong question LOL. Better ask:

  Are we really that bad at allowing tracking?

  Yes you are. And once the data is collected, people are going to do things with the data.

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It goes both ways. Companies are able to track way more data than they should be able to and users are bad at avoiding or even being aware of it, including many who should have security concerns at the top of their mind.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It makes sense for an app like Strava to track location, because that’s literally its purpose. It doesn’t make sense for a bodyguard to be using an app like Strava.

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      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’d prefer if that information was stored locally and wasn’t usable by anyone at Strava to just look up where someone is and/or has been.

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yup

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• yemmly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes, and we’re in denial about it.

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