$5 Bluetooth Tracker Exposed a NATO Warship - The Military Had No Idea
A $5 Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard just exposed a NATO warship's location for 24 hours. Nobody hacked anything. A postcard did it.
A Dutch journalist mailed a cheap Bluetooth tracker to HNLMS Evertsen, a $585 million Dutch frigate operating as part of a NATO carrier strike group in the Mediterranean. Postcards aren't X-rayed like packages. The tracker made it onboard undetected, pinged the crew's personal phones, and he watched the warship sail from Crete towards Cyprus in real time. The Dutch Ministry of Defence has since banned greeting cards containing batteries.
This clip is taken from Episode 85 of The Awareness Angle, a weekly cybersecurity podcast breaking down the biggest security stories with a human focus. No jargon, just what it actually means for real people.
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