"Many Russian generals are talking on unsecured phones and radios. In at least one instance...the Ukra

[Yorkie Mom]

“Many Russian generals are talking on unsecured phones and radios. In at least one instance…the Ukrainians intercepted a general’s call, geolocated it, and attacked his location, killing him and his staff.”

Link to tweet

[samsingh]

1. Don't tell them

[BeyondGeography]

2. They know...they're the geniuses who knocked down the 4G towers

[TheBlackAdder]

25. Can you hear me now? Yuuuup!

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[James48]

3. OPSEC

Not good to publish this kind of info.

[Ocelot II]

5. I'm sure the Russians know. They just can't do anything about it.

And maybe it's a good thing they know, because that makes it even harder for them to transmit information.

[James48]

8. Nope. Never a good thing to let the enemy know

They didn’t know they were being listened to.
They didn’t know exactly how the Ukrainians were able to locate him. Now they know.

Loose lips sink ships.

Don’t tell them how you found them, just find them and Kill them.

[BlueLucy]

21. They know.

They took out the cell towers so that Ukrainians would not be able to use them without thinking they also needed them. They know all they have are unsecure radio. They just don't have much of a choice.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Plus they are so SNAFUed that generals have to be at the fronts to unsnarl things

(Note to readers: SNAFU is military jargon for Simply Normal All Fucked Up, as is FUBAR: Fucked Up Beyond All Repair.)

[herding cats]

23. It's sort of old news and they definitely know about it already.

This is from March 8th.

In an intercepted phone call, independently confirmed by fact-checking group Bellingcat, two apparent Russian FSB officers discuss the death of the general outside of Kharkiv.

“In the call, you hear the Ukraine-based FSB officer ask his boss if he can talk via the secure Era system. The boss says Era is not working,” Bellingcat executive director Christo Grozev said on Twitter.

“Era is a super expensive cryptophone system that [Russia’s defense ministry] introduced in 2021 with great fanfare. It guaranteed [to] work ‘in all conditions’.”

However, "the idiots tried to use the Era cryptophones in Kharkiv, after destroying many 3G cell towers and also replacing others with stingrays," Grozev continued. "Era needs 3G/4G to communicate.

The Russian army is equipped with secure phones that can't work in areas where the Russian army operates."

Stingrays are eavesdropping devices that mimic cell towers, meaning that mobiles connect to them, allowing for data to be intercepted.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ukraine-russian-militarys-own-encrypted-phones-impacted-after-destroying-3g4g-towers-allowing-comms-to-be-intercepted/

[JustAnotherGen]

24. Agreed eom

[Otto_Harper]

4. I suspect, given the conditions back at "Headquarters"

that some of these may have been intentional "suicide by Ukrainians". That way, they can at least keep their family safe when they refuse to do the horrific things they are being ordered to do.

[lagomorph777]

11. I can understand why they'd prefer this sort of "honorable" death, over facing Poo Tin.

[Srkdqltr]

6. What is OPSEC?

[bluedigger]

7. Operational Security n/t

[Srkdqltr]

10. Whose? Russia?

Not all of us are military.

[lagomorph777]

12. Ukraine's

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Russia has very bad OpSec, talking over unencrypted phones and walky talkies

All militaries, militias, police forces, and other force actors have operational security, more or less.

It denotes how they secure the details of operations during planning and especially while ongoing.

Think Navajo Code Talkers.

[James48]

9. Operational security.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Can we get one of them to call Putin?

[zuul]

16. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

[Chainfire]

14. "Here, corporal, give me 15 minutes, then call up the third battalion

and tell them to move three clicks to the North. I have to go see a man about a dog."

[Wounded Bear]

15. Good lord, they got burned by this kind of shit in WWI...

and here I thought they were using WWII tactics. At the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, Germans were intercepting Russian radio signals, some of which were in the clear or using very simple cyphers.

Time wounds all heels.

[zuul]

17. What century is Putin fighting in?

[yagotme]

22. I'm not sure he knows what century he's IN,

much less fighting...

[dalton99a]

20. Savvy Genius and his savvy geniuses

[madinmaryland]

27. He got all of his intel from the Stable Genius.

[KS Toronado]

26. Even if their military leaders on the ground

heard about cell phone tracking, they'll probably just call it fake news propaganda and continue to use their
cell phones because that's what they like using. Granted some would take it serious if they heard about it.