• CommCat [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    lmao, and I was thinking it would've been easy for Russia to insert a mole to signal their location and quickly gtfo once the missiles are launched, nope modern internet warriors and their handlers thinks war is just like the video games.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I remember one of the leaders of Al Qaeda saying that they got 70% of their most useful intelligence from social media. A state actor with high tech resources could probably get an obscene amount of useful information from it - just need to find one guy who breaks opsec to upload a photo of themselves with the geo tags still on it.

      • notceps [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Fun fact USA wanted google to not show US bases but surprise a ton of people use a running app called Strava that tracks your runs. A ton of US mil bases got mapped thanks to Strava and soldiers uploading their runs. It's incredibly easy to have one guy post a ton of info.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        That's what OSINT was originally intended to help achieve but almost all the things using OSINT as a label now have become glorified propaganda feeds and essentially just try to get views by resharing everything all the other OSINT feeds are sharing. None of them do work and they tend to steer audiences away from the spaces where people are trying to do the real digging and work. Gameification really hurts trying to create groups for collective efforts.

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      11 months ago

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    • OgdenTO [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      You see, the shape of the Russian skull denotes an inherent genetic affinity for the hacking trades

  • Putin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It’s true. I emailed them from my putin@kremlin.ru address and they sent over the location. Very helpful.

  • zxcvbnm [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Keyboard warriors in that thread grandstanding about what a "real man" ought to have done

    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      These are the exact same people who are totally fine with drone striking children from a base thousands of miles away because one of them might actually be a terrorist in disguise walking on his knees or something. Actually, I think I heard once, from somewhere I can't remember, about how insurgent forces getting drone strikes by Americans in that region were/are pissed off about drones from a "they're cowards who won't fight us like real men" perspective, so I guess they have that experience in common now - what it's like to be on the other end of a military power with arms and information quite far beyond your own.

  • Civility [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    The Reddit Foreign Legion would have been raising a flag over Moscow right now if they weren’t stabbed in the back 😔

    • YouKnowIt [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      There was a pretty funny series of reddit posts from a dipshit that was at the Ukrainian foreign legion base when it got hit by a missile. Sounds like even before that they were basically sent out to be bullet sponges