US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets Via Flashcard Apps - bellingcat
It's a long article but very interesting read
US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets Via Flashcard Apps
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US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets Via Flashcard Apps - bellingcat
It's a long article but very interesting read
GnauzBookOfRhymes
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For US soldiers tasked with the custody of nuclear weapons in Europe, the stakes are high. Security protocols are lengthy, detailed and need to be known by heart. To simplify this process, some service members have been using publicly visible flashcard learning apps — inadvertently revealing a multitude of sensitive security protocols about US nuclear weapons and the bases at which they are stored.
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However, the flashcards studied by soldiers tasked with guarding these devices reveal not just the bases, but even identify the exact shelters with “hot” vaults that likely contain nuclear weapons.
They also detail intricate security details and protocols such as the positions of cameras, the frequency of patrols around the vaults, secret duress words that signal when a guard is being threatened and the unique identifiers that a restricted area badge needs to have.
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For example, an individual at one base noted down over a 100 things to know related to their specific function. These included the location of modems that connect vaults to the monitoring facility, the procedures for duress signals for each area on base, the sight pictures of cameras aimed at the vault as well as the components and workings of their console. Details around the composition of passwords, usernames and whether they can include spaces were also detailed in the cards.
Some platforms also show when users last studied their flashcards. The user above studied these details most recently in April 2021, although it also appeared to have been removed after Bellingcat contacted NATO, the US Department of Defense and US European Command to ask for a response to the findings of this article
YaFingerDealMe
All Star
Well what happens now? 
i gave up on reading it and just accepted our fate 
not like anyone (rational) will use them so...Well what happens now?
yo WTF 
Between this, all the ransomware shyt, Russian hacking of damn near everything, election interference, the growth of fascism and nationalism via the internet, kids growing up with screen time 24/7, and the way social media is fukking up lives and society....I really think we adopted ubiquitous internet MUCH too fast and have not even begun to understand the consequences of what we've done.
Between this, all the ransomware shyt, Russian hacking of damn near everything, election interference, the growth of fascism and nationalism via the internet, kids growing up with screen time 24/7, and the way social media is fukking up lives and society....I really think we adopted ubiquitous internet MUCH too fast and have not even begun to understand the consequences of what we've done.
gen z is dumb as fukk...
brought to you by 1994 gang... just missed the cutof
also didnt know we playing Guess The Hat with our nuclear weapons while we got bases in every Euro country.... damn
the Prime Minister dont even know if we got nukes on their soil...
brought to you by 1994 gang... just missed the cutof
also didnt know we playing Guess The Hat with our nuclear weapons while we got bases in every Euro country.... damn
the Prime Minister dont even know if we got nukes on their soil...
Wargames
One Of The Last Real Ones To Do It
Tower of Babel 2.0yo WTF
Between this, all the ransomware shyt, Russian hacking of damn near everything, election interference, the growth of fascism and nationalism via the internet, kids growing up with screen time 24/7, and the way social media is fukking up lives and society....I really think we adopted ubiquitous internet MUCH too fast and have not even begun to understand the consequences of what we've done.
fukkin eediats. future leaders of the american military. it's over.
Everyone wants to be a sniper until they do a tour and realize they're putting their lives in the hands of people who arent always the most intelligent.
*joins private sector*
*joins private sector*
The most valuable company in the world literally has the fruit of knowledge that eve bit as it's logo, it's alllll by design.yo WTF
Between this, all the ransomware shyt, Russian hacking of damn near everything, election interference, the growth of fascism and nationalism via the internet, kids growing up with screen time 24/7, and the way social media is fukking up lives and society....I really think we adopted ubiquitous internet MUCH too fast and have not even begun to understand the consequences of what we've done.
Everyone wants to be a sniper until they do a tour and realize they're putting their lives in the hands of people who arent always the most intelligent.
A kid at the barracks told me he got a 36 on the asvab and that it took him 3 times to get that. I promptly told the DS I had asthma and got discharged 3 weeks later.