All non-government phones need to be banned from federal installations. Further, government-issued phones need all non-approved apps removed. They are for government business, right? Nothing on them should unknowingly report or record location, ever.
Are they also going to prohibit pizza delivery to the Pentagon because a tipoff of a major operation starting is a huge number being delivered late in the evening?
I have read that, at least during WWII, all the street signs in Moscow were taken down, so invaders would have a harder time orienting. Natives, of course, knew their way around.
Crude but effective.
And the Fitbits, even though the military first provided them to soldiers.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/28/politics/strava-military-bases-location/index.html
Idiots ban film cameras, but not smart phones in many restricted areas. Yes, smart phones should be banned for many reasons from sensitive areas.
Sure, let's just go back to the 90s.
When I was working, we couldn’t have them in SCIFs and they had to be at least 20 feet or so away from any classified computers with WiFi off/disabled in other areas....makes good security sense to not have them all over the place in a Pentagon environment......even without the potential of leakers and others using them to store data/pictures/videos....
The note about the fitbit stuff was funny. We still don’t know all of the unintended consequences of some of this technology. “Smart” watches are going to be problematic, especially since it is not entire obvious how ‘smart’ some of these gadgets are just by looking at them. The government is really going to have a hard time stuffing all of their employees back into the 80s and 90s.