Because of this incident, the Dutch authorities now ban electronic greeting cards, which, unlike packages, weren’t x-rayed before being brought on the ship.
Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to allow unchecked electronics into a sensitive area like a navy ship?
I can’t believe any military operation allows the use of unsecured phones by personnel. Always blows my mind.
Wait, what is the range of Bluetooth?
Denmark and Norway. Not sure what he wants with the Netherlands, though.
Made me laugh anyway.
It’s a tracker like an Apple Airtag, which basically just needs a compatible phone in range (I guess about 10 metres).
Apple made it so any iphone can detect this without any user interaction or setup. If the iphone detects a nearby tracker, it will just send the location to the user the tracker is registered to.
I don’t use an iphone, but I’m fairly sure that’s how it works. Not even sure if it can be disabled. Android has similar things, but they usually require an app to be installed.
I propose a solution. Invest in unmanned surface vehicles to carry duplicates of mail and require every piece of mail sent to sailors to have a duplicate of which randomly is selected the actual copy of mail to send to the real navy ship. Collect duplicates of the mail and send it on unmanned surface vehicles to sail around and pretend to be navy ships while gathering surveillance data.
Then even if someone thinks they have planted a tracker on a ship successfully they will still be second guessing themselves over whether they are tracking the real ship or not.
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