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French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure (securityaffairs.com)
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[–] 20 points 6 months ago (5 children)

why don't ships at sea simply disguise themselves as a rock or shrubbery?

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    Or as a duck if they need to move.

    BTW sweden have some cool ship disguises.

    Edit: went looking for it, couldn't even find a photo.

    Yeah, that's how good they are.

    Found an old, not very effective but fun one:

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The Swedish Navy's ships do have some bonkers designs, like massive barcodes printed on the side. It's so that when they get back to port they can scan the navy in.

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