• BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Back in the Before Days, I went to a presentation by a journalist who was investigating secret bases in Africa and it was kinda wild how he was able to identify them using public satellite photos and Strava uploads.

    • egg1918 [she/her]
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      1 month ago

      Throwback to when US troops and other assets revealed the locations of dozens of secret bases by uploading their runs to a fitness tracking app that put them all on a map

    • StalinStan [none/use name]
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      1 month ago

      Like, netflix has to know. In a small town in Afghanistan they keep getting 50 or so IP addresses that pop up every time an episode of the boys drops in English. There is only so secret a big mitary base can be.

      Or pornhub knows based on small pockets of preferences that look exactly like military bases in random places across the world.

    • GaveUp [love/loves]
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      1 month ago

      I think they're only secret in the sense that the US does not officially recognize them on record

      • LocalOaf [they/them]
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        1 month ago

        I know this asking about a distinction without a difference, but is it because these are all technically PMC contractors, or is it a JSOC thing where it's an open secret but all classified?

    • Wertheimer [any]
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      1 month ago

      Many troops were hospitalized for explosive diarrhea, but anonymous sources from the Department of Defense assure us that this had nothing to do with the rocket attacks.

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    1 month ago

    If the sigint security is about as strong as those fake websites designed by the CIA, I imagine Iran already has the drop on them lol

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    people won't be hurt tho. the president man said biden-point "i'm building more bases!"