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1957 points apokryptein | 4 comments | | HN request time: 0.208s | source
1. lysace ◴[] No.42911151[source]
I wonder: to which extent are purchased/brokered app real-time location data feeds used by various intelligence services to target missile strikes in war zones? In e.g. Ukraine/Russia.
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2. ActorNightly ◴[] No.42913454[source]
The leaked tools that NSA used, like XKEYSCORE, used publicly available data collection methods, including purchasing advertiser lists, to cross correlate all the data and form a profile. So anybody could do this stuff.
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4. supertrope ◴[] No.42915054[source]
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/russia-ukraine-cell-phones-t...

Not riding off ad geolocation but hijacking a UA app: https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/brochures/FancyBearTr...