Perhaps this year no one in the world has created such catastrophic tech fibers because the US Secretary of Defense Pat Hegsith.
This story began when Jeffrey Goldberg, chief editor of the Atlantic Ocean, Reported That he had been Incorporated by mistake For the unauthorized signal group chat by US National Security Advisor Michael Walts, where several advanced government officials discussed detailed plans to attack the Houthis in Yemen, including time and places where such attacks will take place.
Fairly, we have all made some shameful mistakes. But for most people, this means that five years ago, a former Instagram post is mistakenly liked-not sharing high-secret government military plans on the commercial messaging app with non-authorized recipients.
This misconception of mass sensitive information was already a matter of concern, but this week, the New York Times Reported That Hegsit shared information about the attacks on Yemen in another signal chat, including his lawyer, his wife and his brothers, who had no reason to obtain such sensitive information. Higgsit’s wife does not work for the Pentagon.
These security failures are especially unpleasant – how do you manage to make a journalist mistakenly loop your military plans? But for the first time, it is a matter of time that contemporary technology has brought global governments in difficult situations – and we are not just talking about water gate.
Posted in the army? Don’t use Strava
Fitness Tracking/Social Media App Strava Even for your average athlete can be a nightmare of privacy. The app allows people to share their workouts with their friends in a public account – often moving, adding or sharing motorcycle rides, which can like and comment on the morning jogs in the park.
But Strava accounts are pre -default, it means that if you are not quite safe to test your privacy settings, you will inadvertently broadcast the world in the world where you work. Strava prefers the first and last 200 meters to hide the run where someone lives where someone lives, since people are likely to start and end near their home.
For everyone on the Internet, it is still dangerous to broadcast a 200 -mile circle where you live, but if you’re one it is even more dangerous Army member at a secret baseFor example.
In 2018, Strava unveiled a global heat map, showing that public consumers have logged in to activities globally. It doesn’t really matter if you are looking at the Map of New York City, but in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, very few people use Strava, leaving foreigners, so one can assume that there may be hot places of activity at military bases or around it.
Users can see some of the routes on Strava to further worsen matters so that users who login activities there look at public profiles. Therefore, it will be possible for a bad actor to find a list of US troops stationed at a particular Iraqi base, for example.
Joe Biden’s non -secret vanmo
Venemo One to Monday is a paid payment app, yet for some reason, it is default to share your transactions publicly. So, just by opening my vanmo app – who, at some point my Facebook friends, compatible with my account, maybe 10 years ago – I could see that I went to high school with two girls with two food together last night. Good for them
The information we share on Vanmo can be very boring and beyond, but fans of dedicated reality shows such as “blind of love” will look for contestants’ accounts to predict who is still dating from the show (if the couple sends each other a rent, they are probably).
So, if you can find the stars of reality on the vanmo, why not look for the president?
In 2021, some Buzz Food News Reporters decided to find Joe Biden’s Vanmo. Within 10 minutes, they found his account.
From Biden’s account, reporters could easily find the Biden family and other members of its administration and could map their broader social circles. Even if a user creates his account on Vanmo Private, the list of his friends will be public. When Buzz Food News contacted the White House, Biden’s profile was cleared, but the White House did not comment.
So, yes, the reporters really did Detect vanmo accounts Pat Hegsith, Mike Walts, and other government officials. Some things never change.
Encrypted messaging cannot save you from cameras
All these precautions you want to protect your messages can take, but nothing can save you from the possibility of human error.
Former Catalonia President Carls Pagadimont led a movement in 2017 to gain independence from Spain and to become his country. But the Spanish government stopped the effort and expelled Pagadimont from leadership. When the Spanish government issued a warrant for the arrest of Pagadamont and its allies, they fled to Belgium.
A few months later, Spanish media participated in a program in Belgium where Pigadimont was expected to speak – he sent a video of the speech instead, but when the clip was going on, a Spanish broadcasting agency saw that Catalan was a former Minister of Health, Tony Common, Tony Common. Texting with its screen is fully visible.
The camera operator zoomed on the phone’s phone, which exposed the text of Pigadimont, where he resigned from herself to defeat Catalan’s independence.
Pagadimont later Tweed That he was expressing himself in a moment of doubt but he did not intend to retreat.
It doesn’t matter what steps you take to encrypt your private messages, you want to look at your shoulder before reading sensitive information in the public-especially when you are sending a text with the former president.