Negligent French Sailors Leaked Position and Patrol Schedule of Nuclear Submarines by Using Fitness App Strava
Bu now, every well-informed person is aware of the fact that the electronic devices that we’ve grown accustomed to are potentially spying on us all the time.
When it comes to people in highly sensitive trades, such as military submariners, it seems to us inconceivable that they’d not be operating taking that into full consideration.
It has now arisen that, in a case of scary negligence, crew members of a French nuclear submarine were logging runs on the fitness app Strava – and may have risked leaking their position and patrol schedule to foreign adversaries such as Russia.
The Strava app allows members to share their sporting activities online, with a map showing the exact location where the user completed the exercise.
Île Longue Naval Base in Brest Harbor in the region of Finistère is home to four nuclear submarines.
Mobile phones are naturally forbidden and stored in lockers at checkpoints.
Daily Mail reported:
“Despite the strict security surrounding the facility, sensitive information was still able to leave the fortress due to users of the fitness app. In the past ten years, more than 450 Strava users have been active within the walls of the compound.
Many of those users have not used pseudonyms and have kept their profile public, which allowed journalists from Le Monde to discover the identities of people on the base.”
The journalists from Le Monde found a submariner – presented in the report under the fake name Paul – who ran along the docks where the submarines are moored, recording his times and locations on the app. Then, for the next month his account went silent.
“Similarly, Strava users Arthur and Charles also abruptly stopped their training on Strava after February 3 and resumed around March 25. This suggested that all three men began a patrol aboard one of the submarines.
To confirm this, Paul also justified his disappearance from the app, saying: ‘It’s tough to get back into sport after more than two and a half months in a poo box’.”
Despite the prohibition of mobile phones, smart watches could have passed data, with men recording activity on the base.
“The Navy acknowledged that there was ‘negligence on the part of the personnel which do not necessarily constitute flaws that could affect the activities of the operational base on Île Longue’.”
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