Pentagon employees are using banned and unauthorized apps

https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-pentagon-dating-apps-banned-government-phones-1850098991

by arkadiyt • 3 years ago

39 12 3 years ago

Reminds me of an experiment, security researchers tried. They took a photo of a woman, created a Facebook profile, and put that she worked at Department of Defense. She was inundated with friend requests from everywhere, but mostly from other DOD employees.

Beaver117• 3 years ago

What does that say about society?

cafard• 3 years ago

That it consists of human beings, many of them attracted to women?

988747• 3 years ago

What it tells you about the Department of Defense is that dating someone outside of your own circle brings a lot of scrutiny (who is this girl you're dating? You're sure she's not a Russian/Chinese spy?), so DoD workers prefer in-breeding.

nickphx• 3 years ago

Purported DOD employees, not everyone on the internet is who they say ..

t0mas88• 3 years ago

Makes me wonder why installing apps isn't locked down on those devices?

Apple has an option for that: https://it-training.apple.com/tutorials/deployment/dm195

And a quick search seems to indicate Android does as well: https://support.google.com/a/answer/9997133?hl=en

etc-hosts• 3 years ago

I got banned from using my Huawei phone for official business, I got a compliant phone , now I run hacker news reader, TikTok and Instagram on the banned phone.

phiy• 3 years ago

What if they were using those apps for official government business?

Dating apps to connect to targets. Crypto to pay assets.

lazide2• 3 years ago

They use burner phones, not gov’t provided ones.

hackernewds• 3 years ago

using burner phones for govt work?

Pentagon employees are using banned and unauthorized apps

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