Le Monde reports that confidential movements of powerful leaders like Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris could be tracked through a fitness app used by their bodyguards.
An investigation by French newspaper Le Monde found that the highly confidential movements of U.S. President Joe Biden, presidential rivals Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and other world leaders can be easily tracked online through a fitness app that their bodyguards use.
But the U.S. Secret Service told the newspaper that it doesn't believe the protection it provides was in any way compromised.
Le Monde found that some U.S. Secret Service agents use the Strava fitness app, including in recent weeks after two assassination attempts on Trump, in a video investigation released in French and in English. Strava is a fitness tracking app primarily used by runners and cyclists to record their activities and share their workouts with a community.
Same. This is the first time I've been shocked by a headline mentioning Trump in a long time. "Hold up, he uses a fitness app???" But it's his bodyguards. Oh, okay.
No, it's not Strava's fault, it's whoever is running IT security for that team allowing personal devices while on duty or allowing Strava to be loaded on to a government device.
The question is, why would a secret service member need an app for their fitness? Smells sketchy to me.
Aren't they supposed to be already "highly trained" individuals? Instead of downvoting, explain, you fucking jackasses 😂.
Downvotes don't mean shit on Lemmy btw.
And if you're a highly trained individual, you'll need an app for that? Shouldn't they already be somewhat experts in that regard? Just doesn't make sense
They're highly trained and want to show their friends how far they ran this morning.
Kind of like when Special Forces guys showed off their morning runs on the same app a few years ago. In a patch of Yemen that they weren't officially supposed to be on.