Indian Army Personnel Banned From Using 89 Apps (indiatoday.in) 15
schwit1 writes: Indian troops will not be allowed to use some of the world's most well-known applications. The move goes further than for civilians when the government banned 59 apps, including TikTok, from general use. According to India Today, the Indian Army on Wednesday asked its personnel to delete 89 apps from their phones, including apps such as Facebook, Truecaller, Instagram and games like PUBG. "The latest instruction comes as a bid to plug leakage of sensitive national security information from phones of armed forces personnel," the report says. "The Army has set July 15 as the deadline for the security forces personnel to remove the 89 apps from their phones."
Apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and YouTube are O.K. as long as the personnel don't reveal their army background on the platforms.
Apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and YouTube are O.K. as long as the personnel don't reveal their army background on the platforms.
No problem (Score:2, Funny)
I only use apps from the 2000s onwards.
That's a bridge too far (Score:2)
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Being that these Apps share your location information with others it is probably a bad idea to have your military posting its location in GPS Precises longitude and latitude coordinates. Especially for an army who are bitter rivals of an other nuclear weapon owning country that is just a border away.
Claimed to be true story about Tinder (Score:5, Interesting)
There was a story about joint maneuvers of Scandinavian militaries, whereby an officer on one side logged into Tinder and noticed a sudden jump of nubile females within a fairly short distance from his location. It didn't take long to realize, they were part of the opposing side's force.
He then sent a driver with his phone along a road to take notes of the distances to the same lady(ies) changing as he drove. In a short time, he was able to triangulate the position of their unit, and call an artillery strike on the coordinates, thus winning the game...
India is facing something far more serious than a game...
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Something similar actually cost lives in the eastern Ukraine: https://www.google.ch/amp/s/fo... [google.ch]
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Yes, if you can install your own app into an opponent's computer — you, quite literally, own him.
My example is about an honest app, working as intended, using the location information for legitimate (and widely advertised) purpose — still being quite useful to an enemy seeking to kill you.
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Could also go back to flip phone.
Or a bank of pay phones back at the base. When soldiers are out on maneuvers, they shouldn't be using anything other than issued comm equipment. And they shouldn't be talking to anyone outside of their chain of command. It's called COMSEC [wikipedia.org].
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It's also a very real problem for families. Loss of contact with all non-military helps encourage war crimes: publication of criminal activity helps reduce them. Look at the history of the US torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, where torture, rape, and murder wer committed wholesale against "enemy non-combatants".
There are classes of military secret that should be leaked, and will become far more difficult to leak to military and civilian courts of all nations without these tools.
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Apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and YouTube are O.K.
89 apps? (Score:2)
That's just 10 apps short of a Jay-Z joke.
it's not on the list... (Score:1)
Fuck India (Score:1)