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  • Albbi@lemmy.caEnglish
    182·
    20 days ago

    What! There’s no way Trump uses Strava.

    reads article

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

      • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        525·
        20 days 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.

        • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          341·
          20 days 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

          • Bridger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            12·
            20 days 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.

      • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        20 days 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.

        • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          16·
          20 days 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.

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      42·
      20 days 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??

    • clgoh@lemmy.caEnglish
      28·
      20 days ago

      Secret service leta them use normie phones loaded with normie apps?

      No. At least not while they were on duty.

      But they used their device while off-duty, but at the same hotel they were at.

  • Alue42@fedia.io
    181·
    20 days ago

    I find this to be a breakdown of training, because the training was pretty clear years ago when I had clearance with the navy that we were never to use apps like this that could disclose location, not just while on-duty or on base, but at any time that our location could be given away. We were specifically not allowed to have Fitbits or other smart watches (Fitbit was the big one at the time) that could share location and any apps that wanted to know our location (yes, on our personal phones) needed to be cleared by IT because we were people that had been granted clearance and therefore could not give away critical location information.

    The big scandal that got a lot of people into trouble was Pokemon Go, because not only did it use location, but I guess it used camera too? I didn’t know, I didn’t play it, but using cameras on base was a HUGE no-no, so using an app that shared location AND picture during your lunch break broke the brains of the COs.

    It seems so weird to me that this is something that is so widespread right now. I didn’t work for the navy anymore and haven’t in a while, but I still follow the basic safety protocols about not sharing sensitive information.

  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    92·
    20 days ago

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

    • actually@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      20 days 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

      • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        20 days 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.