Russian Defense Ministry prohibits servicemen to publish photos with geolocation function

On the eve, as reported in one of the materials "Military Review", in the American edition of The Wall Street Journal published an article about the "misadventures" of NATO troops in Poland and the Baltic States. Allegedly, NATO soldiers' smartphones were attacked by Russian hackers, who used a drone with tracking equipment. As a result, NATO soldiers in Estonia were banned from using the geolocation function.

It became known that the Russian Ministry of Defense also decided to take measures to ban the publication of photos with geolocation on social networks and other Internet resources. From the explanatory note to the bill, the fragmentary text of which is published on the federal portal of legislative projects:

The special services of individual states, as well as various terrorist and extremist organizations (...) use information posted by military personnel on the Internet information and telecommunications network.

The draft law proposes not only a ban on the use of geolocation by the servicemen of the RF Armed Forces when publishing a photo, but also publishing the photos themselves, if they contain information (primarily graphic) about the departmental affiliation of the person.

The bill states that such measures are necessary to increase the level of information security of military personnel.

Comments

[Tatyana]

I have been talking about this for a long time! That the Internet is under the hood of the CIA! This is especially dangerous for military personnel, entrepreneurs, and indeed for citizens!

[bouncyhunter]

Good day, Tanyusha! In Belarus, smartphones were forbidden to the military at the time, but they apparently realized that it was possible to calculate using a simple “dialer”, because the ban was lifted. I won’t tell you about the secretaries, because I don’t know: it’s secret.

[Krabik]

I would otherwise express the Internet - this is part of the NSA structure.

[Tatyana]

Absolutely right! That is why China is creating its own Internet, independent of the American.

[Krabik]

My Internet, I believe, is already an imperial policy and it would be better to sit with quiet mice and not rock the boat, otherwise we’ve been screwed for a couple of centuries.

Let the Americans understand Europe and China ...

[Tatyana]

Your Internet is a policy of ensuring your national security for such a huge country as China and the Russian Federation and dominating the world!

[ksp]

Quote: Tatiana

Your Internet is a national security policy for such a huge country as China and the Russian Federation!

The Internet cannot be ours - the Internet is a priori global.
Your Internet in the DPRK - only such networks are called Intranets (local networks) - do you want like in the DPRK? Go there.

[himRa]

Quote: Tatiana

That is why China is creating its own Internet, independent of the American.

They don’t create, but they already created it long ago, just like ours ... it’s easy to turn the Internet into an intranet (global network into local network), for example, in the event of hostilities ...
And if it is not possible to track conversations and messages, then such a program will not work with us or China (Google, etc.) .. remember the Skype scandal, windows or telegrams ... (we) put an ultimatum and ... the developer immediately leaked source codes ... having source codes (uncompiled code) you can control by keywords ...
On the one hand, a violation, and on the other, the fight against terrorism ...
So do all special services
On the topic: you can turn off geolocation but it’s better to exclude the radio signal (cell phone) altogether!
They do this in special operations ...

[Leeds]

Not only that, they can launch an ax at you, more precisely, and no one will blink an eye there, that in your five-story building in a military town there are 40 officer families with children and wives.

As for Syria, there amateurs set the exact geolocation of the terrain, trees and sheds barely visible from the satellite, etc. What can I say about US intelligence ...

Bottom line, in general for this crap should be very severe punishments.

[Scoun]

It’s nonsense to post photos with geo-tagged networks and “compassionate” friends leaking information to the media ..... well, when acting on the principle according to the principle - do no harm!
With our two citizens who fell into the hands of bandits ... compassionate idiots already talked about the number of trips to Syria, as if from this the attitude of the Barmaleans would improve ...
In general, it is more dangerous than durak, durak with initiative!

[Corsair0304]

The special services of individual states, as well as various terrorist and extremist organizations (...) use information posted by military personnel on the Internet information and telecommunications network.

It was high time to do it. There is nothing for the adversary to make life easier.

[Herculesic]

Isn't it better to allow a soldier in the army to use only a telephone-talker, and not a smartphone? ??

[dauria]

to use only a telephone-dialer, and not a smartphone?

from the very beginning (in the 80s) in the GSM standard, the position of the phone was determined by the operator in a differential-ranging manner with respect to three neighboring cells. In the first "Alkatelka" there was even an exit to the engineering menu, and the user saw the distance (accurate to a meter) to hundreds. The communication is organized in such a way, it is impossible without it - the cells accompany and transfer each other the subscriber (for example, if he is traveling around the city)
So if the phone is in your pocket (even if you haven’t called anyone), you are already "grazed". A smartphone, just a "talker" - no difference. Your phone always broadcasts CAM from time to time, even when you sleep with your mistress.

[B.T.V.]

This had to be done the day before yesterday.

[demo]

Now the photo will be possible for peasants only in the bath of the garrison.
That’s what they’ll pick up subscribers.
True, not all. Not all.

[asbond]

It's time to limit! And not just the military! And then I watched here detailed photos of one of the nuclear facilities in Google and was horrified - the dream of spies and saboteurs!

[andrewkor]

Flag signaling, bonfire, no, it won’t, it’s noticeable from space!

[bald]

Honestly madhouse in full. In the 80s they could not even send a letter, without the control of the KGB. And now they serve a year. So what the hell, they still have cell phones !!!!!!! What are they, came to play in the spruce !!!! An interesting question to the office. Somehow in the service, one KGB captain told me how, by just one word and emotions you can determine everything about a person !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And he is right. Conscripts should not have any cell phones.

[jjj]

Moreover, it is determined which of the politicians or heads of state is lying on TV

[bald]

This captain and I went on a business trip, he me, so to speak pass in the open. I’m 18 — for him over 30 — they have traveled far and I don’t understand who studied with whom, of course I’m more, but he also allowed a mulka - it happens. In general - the KGB --- it was a force, and a mullet is his fleeting woman on the road, men will understand, I apologize to women.

[Alexey-74]

Everyone has been talking about this for a long time. If the premium published a photo on social networks, and even against the backdrop of a military facility - for up to 1,5 years ... then they will think .....

[Belyash]

even Medvedev did it from an iPhone

[Yarik]

For from MO I explain that the phone. maybe at the checkpoint of the unit, maximum in the company. And put the tears of soldiers' mothers in the opera. The army, her mother, is not a kindergarten. Geolocation.

[Olddetractor]

The best phone for a soldier would be something like this

[tank66]

It’s enough for the conscripts and pagers with SMS templates. Type: Get hurt, there were pies and borscht today ... Olya you dreamed to me naked ...

[lightning]

Quote: bald

...
... Conscripts should not have any cell phones.

Still useful to tie them with shackles at night to the bed. And then the bastards in fact run into a do-it-yourself, and there spies can blurt out something superfluous.

Well, nonsense. Why would a kid demand compliance with state secrets if he did not subscribe to it? He might not even want to go into the army, but his secret facility. Come on!

Want privacy? Hire a specially trained person from whom you can ask for compliance with all that you want for the appropriate money.

[Golovan Jack]

Quote: Lightning

Want privacy? Hire a specially trained person ...

"Pepsi Generation" on the march? For a long time conscripts served where they had been placed. And I’ve not got any mobiles for you, for the camera we could have one ... this ... in general, they could

Quote: Lightning

Why would a kid demand compliance with state secrets if he did not subscribe to it?

Duc "sign" (that's how two fingers on the asphalt, in fact).

Quote: Lightning

He might not want to join the army either ...

And what, the call has already been canceled? A reference to the law pamper or something ...

Ekperd homegrown pancake

[jjj]

Quote: Golovan Jack

Quote: Lightning
Why would a kid demand compliance with state secrets if he did not subscribe to it?
Duc "sign" (that's how two fingers on the asphalt, in fact).

Under the disclosure law, anyone can be attracted, even those who are not carriers and have not given a non-disclosure subscription

[Golovan Jack]

Quote: jjj

you can attract anyone, even those who are not carriers and did not give a non-disclosure subscription

This is clear. I just answered a specific "enlightened" to his "pure concrete questions"

[japs]

Itself was once a clerk with \ h. I do not think that the organization of the regime has changed much. On sensitive sites, smartphones, etc., are most likely prohibited.
And the intellectual level of recruits for such a service should correspond.
Victims of the exam cannot get there, they are still rejected at the military registration and enlistment offices during clearance for the required level. In my time there were three (fourth in place). Fortunately, now we have a competition for military service.

[Serzh_R]

Until they give out protected phones to the military for the duration of the service, the question remains.

[Nitarius]

the fine should be at least horseback .. and you need to tear not the soldiers but the top .. that’s what they allow themselves a lot!

[Laksamana besar]

It's time.

[vladimirvn]

Autumn depression is well treated with autumn appeal.

[assa67]

Quote: Serzh_R

military servicemen protected phones

none at all! write letters, as they say