Exercise the application to gather its users a lot of detailed information.Belgian Nato-soldiers are no longer allowed to use smart phones to command k by the borders of Russia. MIKA HORELLI
belgium’s defense ministry has banned personal smartphones in use in the Baltic countries serve from the Nato-military in. Ban the background is the attempt to prevent the Russian spy.
the Kremlin closely monitoring Nato military maneuvers in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, and one of the best ways to set the location of the monitor have proven to be the soldiers used by smartphone apps, which have detected a bad security holes.
Smartphones are banned because the military are leaking without your knowledge through them the secret location of the information.
Especially the soldiers of popularity in the american Strava, as well as the Finnish Polar fitness app have in recent years been the public security risk. The application of the user information is used for military intelligence needs.
the Dutch VRT-news site, according to the Belgian armed forces have been trying for several years to find ways to smartphone data leakage can be prevented. Enough reliable means so far found, for phone apps care still too often a military secret information to anyone interested.
Spying is possible for a user activity measurement applications. Mostphotos surprisingly easy
activity in the application of information by gathering for military purposes is extremely easy, because part of the program, the users will publish, either knowingly or unknowingly to social media to, inter alia, information about where they go jogging or biking.
at the Same time, for example, Russian is easy to check, where the Baltic countries invested in belgian Nato soldiers currently are.
Although most of the activity program of the military users to determine movements in the app settings to private, there are also those who do not. Among others, the Russian hybrid war in the next research of suppliers consists of the Bellingcat group found alone polar’s software users 6460 persons, with the move off was shared openly on social media, even if they served or worked in more than 200 militarily sensitive in different parts of the world.
Russia is using to spy on the former more modern ways. EPA/AOPPolar sale
Polar pulled last summer temporarily from the market Explore-the name of the activity application, for Bellingcat published a software to reveal to Russia, inter alia, set-departmental investments as well as in different countries the security services of persons belonging to the move off and the activity of Nato-countries in different stockpiles in the vicinity.
Bellingcatin according to the Finnish Polar special puzzle was the fact that it collects users ‘ movements a lot more espionage usable data than, for example, competing in the activity monitor designed smartphone software Strava and Garmin.
a Belgian colonel, Carl Gillis according to, inter alia, the Netherlands and Britain have already banned the Nato-military in their own smartphones to the borders of Russia. As a soldier it is important to keep in touch with home, the Uk has divided their own troops restricted functionality services to your phone and tablet computers.
Colonel Gillis, Belgium cannot afford such luxury, but the country seeks to ensure that its forces are given sufficient opportunity to keep in touch with home by other means also the Baltic-command-night.
