Wednesday, January 04, 2023

Wednesday Ramblings

 The US House is still squabbling about who is going to be Speaker.  This isn't a good look for the Republicans, but it is a process, and it is sometimes messy. At some point, they will figure it out and we can move forward.

The Russian military is blaming its troops for unauthorized cell phone use that prompted the Ukrainians to drop a HIMARS strike on them.

Moscow's defense ministry said late Tuesday that the unauthorized use of mobile devices allowed Kyiv's forces to identify the soldiers' location via phone signals. It also raised the confirmed death toll to 89 from the weekend strike on the base at a school in Makiivka, a town in a Russian-occupied area of the eastern Donetsk region.

That is a fairly sophisticated use of cell data.  They were watching cell data, saw a concentration, and loosed a rocket at it.  There should be a lesson there for all of us.

3 comments:

Glypto Dropem said...

If [WHEN] the SHTF, my phone will be purged of cached and stored data, powered off, battery fully charged then removed, the phone wrapped in a Faraday cage, and then hidden in a wall.

Anonymous said...

A very wise man once said "stay away from crowds".

Old NFO said...

Much like the 'fitbit' tracking the Taliban were using against us...