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

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Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Dot@feddit.org⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-macron-bodyguards-security-strava-0a48afca09c7aa74d703e72833dcaf72

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  • Albbi@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What! There’s no way Trump uses Strava…

    reads article

    Oh, the bodyguards… that makes sense and is kinda smart to investigate.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • dhork@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yup

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      • yemmly@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, and we’re in denial about it.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hmm, so he’s not a fitness buff… Maybe we could track him by looking at state library databases and seeing when and where he has most recently checked out library books??

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The military had a similar problem with fitness apps for a while.

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    • benignintervention@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I used this exact thing as a teaching aid when I taught the ROTC opsec lesson. Also scared a couple kids pale when I told them Snapchat keeps a 6-month record of everything you send

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      • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Only 6 months? Honestly I’m surprised it’s so short of time frame.

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Some science magazines guessed something big was going on when many of their subscribers changed the address to New Mexico.

      They were working on the Manhattan Project.

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      • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Unlike this, fitness apps don’t require external connectivity or computing resources not satisfied by today’s handheld devices.

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  • tekato@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Politicians when they realize the commercialized espionage they’ve allowed also applies to them:

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    • zqps@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just like Angela Merkel’s upset remark “you don’t spy on your friends”.

      Well yes, dear Angela, they spy on everyone. And it’s telling that the outrage came only because she was personally affected. The peasants’ data and personal lives are fair game.

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  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am less surprised that the information is out there than I am that the bodyguards of such people are allowed to either bring along their personal devices or install random crap from the public app stores on their work devices.

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  • unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Trump’s tracking: Golf, golf, McDs, court, golf, golf, court, Mcds, McDs, McDs, golf…

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    • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s no way Trump’s usual McDs is in person

      He has staff procure it for him

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      • umbraroze@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have a sports watch and the corresponding fitness app. I can confirm. “Sitting on one’s ass at the restaurant” is not a fitness activity. HOWEVER. Some of my activities (e.g. walks) do terminate near fast food jonts. …I dread what that kind of data analysis would yield on a major political figure.

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    • viking@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The article said that they track the movements of bodyguards. I doubt Trump or Biden use anything remotely related to fitness. Obama might have.

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Crazy. What’s next? Can they track us with our phones too? 🤯

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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You won’t need Strava to know Joe’s at the ice cream parlour. Pffffff.

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  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’d think the secret service were better at opsec than random soldiers getting their helicopters blown up.

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    • actually@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve intuited, maybe correctly, the service has become changed over the years and is not what it once was. Stuff like this makes me think that maybe my armchair analysis is correct

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      • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Considering Trump almost got his head blown off because they let a guy sit on a roof with a rifle at a political rally for 5 minutes… that’s not a stretch.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, people have always been shit at stuff like this.

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  • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh my god who cares.

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    • MrPenguinSky@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can imagine the secret service will.

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      • FutileRecipe@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And hopefully does something about. Disciplinary for the poor OPSEC and/or better resources to avoid it and/or better laws to stop this unfettered data collection and/or better training to avoid it in the future. Here’s hoping. Holds breath

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  • mostdubious@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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    • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t be coy, tell us what you think we should be using it for.

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      • Glitterbomb@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So I can get close enough to airdrop photos of my penis to the president of the United States. What did you think I was going to use it for?

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      • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        For saying hi of course c:

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  • SpiceDealer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What is this “fitness” they speak of? It seems to be from overseas. Could someone explain this to an American like me?

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