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Government officials are kind of bad at the internet
Perhaps no one in the world has made such catastrophic tech flubs this year as U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The saga started when the
But for most people, that means accidentally liking an ex’s Instagram post from five years ago — not sharing top-secret government military plans on a commercial messaging app with unauthorized recipients. The app allows people to share their exercise logs — often runs, hikes, or bike rides — on a public account with their friends, who can like and comment on their morning jogs in the park. This doesn’t really matter if you’re looking at a map of New York City, but in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, few people use Strava aside from foreigners, so one can assume that hot spots of activity may occur at or around military bases.
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