Some say that Hegseth should be canned for his continuing purges of high-ranking officers.
On the other hand, maybe Hegseth hasn't gone far enough.
The Pentagon announced this week it has finally disabled advertising trackers on government-issued phones and computers across every branch of the U.S. military. The mobile advertising ID — the tiny piece of code that lets data brokers follow a single device across every app it touches, map where it sleeps, where it works, where it travels, and sell that information to anyone with a credit card — has been shut off....
"Finally"? What does that mean?
In 2018, fitness app Strava published a global heat map of user activity that inadvertently revealed the layouts and patrol routes of secret U.S. military bases in Syria, Afghanistan, and Africa. The Pentagon scrambled. Nothing changed. In 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that a U.S. military contractor demonstrated it could reconstruct American military operations in real time using nothing but commercially available app data from soldiers’ phones. The Pentagon took note. Nothing changed. In 2024, Wired magazine showed that the same commercial data streams could pinpoint U.S. military contractors at specific overseas locations — including, humiliatingly, German brothels.
Still nothing changed.
There are two questions: "Who Profited?", along with "Who F'd Up?"
Hegseth has a lot more work to do.
No comments:
Post a Comment