A British soldier disobeyed a direct order to remove the SIM card from his cellphone before being deployed to a part of Estonia, approximately 90 miles west of the Russian border.

As a result of his refusal to engage in this element of operational security (opsec), the soldier, had his phone hacked, and nude photos of himself were stolen and used as blackmail against him.

  • Rhonda Sandtits@lemmy.sdf.org
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    16 hours ago

    given specific instructions to “remove SIM cards and switch off location settings and to use a trusted virtual private network on all personal electronic devices.”

    Lol, that’s actually pretty easily managed set of opsec requirements.
    Enjoy your 10 months detention, dickhead.