Russian Soldiers Have the Worst Opsec

You would think the Russian army would put their phones on airplane mode before invading Ukraine, but apparently not.

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[sen_ex]

You actually pronounced the names better than 99% of journalists do

[panqueque]

I thought they took your phone away if you went to war. They're literally a tracking device in each soldier's pocket. It blows my mind soldiers are allowed to have their phones with them during a war. Insane.

[Cleisthenes]

A few years ago American soldiers using fitbits literally gave away the outline of US military bases in Africa that no one knew existed. If the US ever got into a war with a peer rival this would apply to the US as well.

[hughgrection]

The mechanics in this new Stalker game kick ass

[ID-unavailable]

Bad opsec is huge on both sides, a bunch of ukrainians and volunteers got killed early on for posting pics of their barracks on redit, and there was even a youtube channel that posted about some militia training that was going on mauripol, they of course, included the name of the building were the training was taking place

[silviak]

As an insider, I can say that target tracking by cellphone was massively used only in the first weeks of the war. This worked until the russians start shelling telephone towers. But in some regions, like Kherson or Donbass you still can catch a signal from occupied territory. By the way, this problem often occurring in ukranian army too. Technologies make it possible to track spots with massive usage of cellphones, without any telephone towers under control.

By the way, there are a lot of stupidity occurring from both sides. Such as tiktok hypebeests that give away locations where rocket has landed, or troops location, captured cellphones with A LOT of video footage and info from messengers.

[Bagginsess]

>meanwhile US will have every soldier tracked for "strategy"
>inb4 it can't be hacked

it can be hacked

[lolitaras]

iCarly controlling the cell towers terrified me, no shit, it was an Orwellian moment.

[wondercorpse]

There are actually a lot of russian captives saying that officers took their phones before entering Ukraine. But also a lot of russian soldiers were afraid that officers would just steal and sell their phones on a black market so they hid them.

[csolisr]

And that's why any security officer should go and buy at least a Faraday cage for storing electronics into

[zerazerazerazerazerazerazera]

I remember seeing some mercs (r*ddit legion) in the Ukrainian military messing up their opsec as well. This truly is the war of the zoomies.

[LaughingMan]

Same thing happened to the Ukrainian "Foreign Legion". Someone in the barracks took pictures inside the place and put them on social media. Russians were able to figure out where they were and bombed them.

[ScorgRus]

Thing is, most people in the army are not exactly tech specialists, they don't know how comms work and how they could be used against them in a conflict. And it doesn't help that soldiers are not educated by their superiors enough on these subjects. Yes, personal phones and other devices are forbidden in the army, but nobody bothers to explain technical reasons, and that is (also) why everyone just ignores this ban.
And remember how a USAian base's location got leaked when some running-route-sharing app showed intensive routes is the middle of some desert? Yeah, Russian soldiers are not the first to be ignorant of these dangers.

[Two-Checks]

How are the soldiers going to find the hot singles in their area?

[markjenkins]

I thought smartphones were good for your privacy, especially those apple ones.

[Chiboza]

Russian army collected phones from soldiers before deploying, but I imagine they bypassed this by hiding them.

[ha]

I feel so lonely now, I was hoping I had a glow buddy watching over me, but it turns out I’m all alone, because I’m not interesting enough for them. So it goes…

[dragossh]

"Turn off your phone once you cross the border"
My man, these guys didn't even know where they were going or why. They've been moving along the Russian side of the border for days, nobody even told them they crossed into Ukraine. Some of them even started looking for cheap tricks on Tinder the second day into the invasion.

[DT]

At this point it wouldn’t be surprising if there’s a story in the future on how an entire bunker of Russian troops were located because one of them decided to update csgo on his laptop overnight

[tiagotiagot]

Governments use your data to figure out how to manipulate you, just like advertisers but hurting way more than just your wallet