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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Back in the Before Days, I went to a presentation by a journalist who was investigating secret bases in Africa and it was kinda wild how he was able to identify them using public satellite photos and Strava uploads.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Throwback to when US troops and other assets revealed the locations of dozens of secret bases by uploading their runs to a fitness tracking app that put them all on a map

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Like, netflix has to know. In a small town in Afghanistan they keep getting 50 or so IP addresses that pop up every time an episode of the boys drops in English. There is only so secret a big mitary base can be.

Or pornhub knows based on small pockets of preferences that look exactly like military bases in random places across the world.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're not that secret then!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I think they're only secret in the sense that the US does not officially recognize them on record

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Ah, like the genocides we do.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I know this asking about a distinction without a difference, but is it because these are all technically PMC contractors, or is it a JSOC thing where it's an open secret but all classified?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

More like "shitting ducks", am I right? Heh heh

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Many troops were hospitalized for explosive diarrhea, but anonymous sources from the Department of Defense assure us that this had nothing to do with the rocket attacks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Commander Eve Fartlow

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

US imperialism losing ground, warms my heart stalin-heart

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

well they've only got short range weapons, so we have to send our troops over there to get shot

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

If the sigint security is about as strong as those fake websites designed by the CIA, I imagine Iran already has the drop on them lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

people won't be hurt tho. the president man said biden-point "i'm building more bases!"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

NOT SO SECRET HUH IDIOTS

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago