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Does it make sense to give the troops special phones instead of their own? I always find it weird that soldiers can take their own phones into the base.

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Most of what goes on on most bases is as unsecret as it gets. The rooms where sensitive things happen have security measures in place and they keep you from bringing your phone in there. Usually a little locker is provided where you store your phone while you are inside the protected area. In some very sensitive places there may be additional active and passive measures but usually people with access to those areas police themselves.

Unless your Matt Gaetz and co, in which case you just storm into the SCIF with a recording device and are allowed to get away with it.

Guess what people talk (and write) about after meetings.

If you talk and/or write about what happened in one of those places, you can face consequences from discipline up to prison.

Yes, it happens. No, it better not happen much, and it's not supposed to happen at all.

Really? Tell me again, what happened to that dude ... what was his name? I think they used to be on TV. Can't quite place them. Please help me out.

Like a lot of data collection, the meta data gets you pretty far. The who's and where's can be hoovered up with tracking data buys and essentially get you a nice list of who has access to certain areas, which can be used for targeting individuals.

Do the security measures extend to the top leadership? Or are they exempt as long as they say "We are currently clean on OPSEC"?

It allows fun things like locating aircraft carriers on Strava.

I don't think the Iranians have direct targeting tech for individual mobiles for decapitation strikes yet, that's an Israeli capability.

The base is where people live 24/7. You'd be banning them from having phones.

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