The science behind this one confuses me. Bluetooth is short range, and gps is too low power to penetrate. There’s no way a gps will get lock from inside a ship, and someone would need a compatible app and internet to relay it out.
The issue isn’t the tracker, it’s the person with their personal phone and the app that relayed the position of the tracker while they were in cell range of the shore.
Thanks for writing this for me. This seems implausible without other failures happening in concert.
Stories like this always feel like misdirection efforts to deflect blame from the actually responsible devices and organizations. The amount of normalization of openly-broadcasting-at-all-times cellphones in our society can’t really be explained with anything less than an overwhelming multi-level propaganda campaign.
Who needs spies anymore when you can just convince everyone, even military personnel, to carry around an always-on camera and microphone with onboard power and various long-range wireless options (and get them to willingly keep it continuously charged for you!)
WTF are we doing to ourselves and why anybody tolerates this nonsense I have no idea.
Yes!
An diplomats/CEOs using Teslas!
- Optical cameras are mandated at Musk’s insistence, despite lidar being better.
- Built in cell modem for “over the air updates”.
- Massive processing onboard for “interpreting the cameras”.
- Microphones and cameras inside to “ensure the driver is paying attention”.
- Big ass batteries for driving and keeping sky kit running.
- Get the targets to pay for the spy gear themselves.
Yep, which terrifies me about apple devices because of its mesh system. All devices bounce from one to the next until one gets internet and it pings the location
Comment below explains it very well
The thing providing the location of the device is the phone… how are military allowed to carry personal phones?
I’ve worked in Top Secret facilities and holy shit no you are not allowed to bring phones inside. How is an active duty ship less controlled?
I am guessing that it’s different because they spend weeks and months on the ship. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t be too keen to enlist in the navy if it required not having my personal phone for months on end. They gotta make some concessions in policy to keep everyone sane.
Or maybe they’re banned but people sneak them in anyway.
Edit: then again, if they just snuck them in, they wouldn’t have any connection. They need wifi. So it’s probably allowed.
