why is anonmity not practised in our special forces?

[Enigma SIG]

Military personnel shouldn't be allowed off the shelf phones while on active duty or on any military installation. This shows how little the top brass knows about data security. Any phone with google/facebook or any social media app is a walking data sinkhole. Phones are listening to you all the time, even when switched off. All this data goes into US based servers which may I remind you is a front for PRISM.
Pakistan should be making its own phones with vetted OS'es that don't send back data to US servers. Any cyber defense unit in the military should have this as routine procedure.

 

[Mumm-Ra]

Boasting about your accomplishments is nothing new and not specific to any branch. Its just our culture, we like to show off. Let me share a personal example. I was travelling with my buddy on train. We were in one of those sleeper carriages where there are four berths. Now we just happen to share the room with two military personal. One from the airforce and one from the navy. after pleasantries, food and some good old game of cards, they started to get comfortable. We started chatting and F-16s came on the topic. The airman proudly boasted that once he was part of an operation to get one F-16 inspected by the Chinese. So they mounted one on a truck, after deceiving the US inspectors here, and whisked it away to China. But, you see the US is smart and their inspection came to inspect the very same aircraft that we had to get it to the base fast. So they flew the plane all the way from China to Pak. I'm like "bruh, you tripping" but he was insistent.

Not to be outdone, the Navy guy started telling about the time the navy engineers installed some "special new type of equipment" in the Agosta submarines. The most brilliant part was how they cut of some part of the sub and then welled it together so well that even the French were gobsmacked. Now hoe true are these claims ? I'll leave it to the readers. Thinking of it now, I should have opened threads on these topics and enjoy the fun while they ran up to 100 pages.. But I digress.

Point being, we love to boast. The advent of social media has allowed us to do it with proof and far more frequently. Hence, you'll see these pics and even if you maintain an iron discipline, someone will leak them.

 

[Lincoln]

Boasting about your accomplishments is nothing new and not specific to any branch. Its just our culture, we like to show off. Let me share a personal example. I was travelling with my buddy on train. We were in one of those sleeper carriages where there are four berths. Now we just happen to share the room with two military personal. One from the airforce and one from the navy. after pleasantries, food and some good old game of cards, they started to get comfortable. We started chatting and F-16s came on the topic. The airman proudly boasted that once he was part of an operation to get one F-16 inspected by the Chinese. So they mounted one on a truck, after deceiving the US inspectors here, and whisked it away to China. But, you see the US is smart and their inspection came to inspect the very same aircraft that we had to get it to the base fast. So they flew the plane all the way from China to Pak. I'm like "bruh, you tripping" but he was insistent.

Not to be outdone, the Navy guy started telling about the time the navy engineers installed some "special new type of equipment" in the Agosta submarines. The most brilliant part was how they cut of some part of the sub and then welled it together so well that even the French were gobsmacked. Now hoe true are these claims ? I'll leave it to the readers. Thinking of it now, I should have opened threads on these topics and enjoy the fun while they ran up to 100 pages.. But I digress.

Point being, we love to boast. The advent of social media has allowed us to do it with proof and far more frequently. Hence, you'll see these pics and even if you maintain an iron discipline, someone will leak them.

That information is highly OPSEC, and he told it to a stranger on a train carriage...

 

[Mumm-Ra]

That information is highly OPSEC, and he told it to a stranger on a train carriage...

Brother, most men will spill anything over a game of cards and cigarettes.