Voluntary-Participation Surveillance Society and, oh, Little Things Like Aircraft Carriers

 Hilarious, inevitable, tactically troubling, and evidence of our voluntary-participation surveillance society. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/20/stravaleaks-france-s-aircraft-carrier-located-in-real-time-by-le-monde-through-fitness-app_6751640_4.html

Strava is the app I use to record my bike rides; "everybody" is on it. It can obscure your start and end points if you don't want the exact location of your house identified, but if you're on a public app like this, you've already volunteered to share a great deal about yourself.

Warfighters are heavily warned against sharing opsec-sensitive info, and I've been told that modern briefings instruct them not to use Strava while on deployment. But it was inevitable that someone would forget. I'm sure the poor guy has already been disciplined and his shipmates won't let him live it down, for sure.