Le Monde reports that confidential movements of powerful leaders like Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris could be tracked through a fitness app used by their bodyguards.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
Why would they let bodyguards use tracking apps? Are we really that bad at opsec?
Yes, and we’re in denial about it.
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.
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.
Yup
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.
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
Would you think those guys would know to do something about a dude on a roof with a rifle?
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.
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.
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.
What does that have to do with the French newspaper Le Monde?
I don’t know. I don’t read Le Monde.
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!
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.
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.
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