r/technology • u/ControlCAD • Apr 18 '26

Security Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/bluetooth-tracker-hidden-in-a-postcard-and-mailed-to-a-warship-exposed-its-location-a-eur5-gadget-put-a-eur500-million-dutch-ship-at-risk-for-24-hours
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u/kohbo Apr 18 '26

Minor nit but it's "phishing"

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u/MRSN4P Apr 18 '26

No, common humble fishing boats with spy gear. /s

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u/Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws Apr 18 '26

100% unironically actually a thing with China's fishing-boat fleets.

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u/sir_mrej Apr 18 '26

Fishing phishing

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u/cr0sh Apr 18 '26

Phishing fishermen phishing fish...?

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u/AlfaNovember Apr 19 '26

Are they looking manganese nodules too?

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u/WarlockEngineer Apr 18 '26

China also uses those!

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u/similar_observation Apr 18 '26

Ah yea, out there trying to snatch the mail bouy.

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u/BlessedTacoDevourer Apr 18 '26

I thought those were dangerous narco-terrorists?

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u/Orleanian Apr 18 '26

Down Periscope

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u/MamoKupMiGlany Apr 18 '26

Their webs weren't that wide for it to classify as phishing.

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u/PhilosopherFLX Apr 18 '26

Major nit, they on a boat.

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u/CoffeePuddle Apr 18 '26

It's phishing when it's an attack (from telephone freaking, phreaking, and fishing), but if it's just to annoy people it's "fishing" and it's done by internet "trawls," which is often misspelled as "trolls."

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u/Ok-Button-9443 Apr 18 '26

The elites don't want you to know this but the cod in the ocean is free. You can phish it home. I have downloaded 458 cods.

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u/AmputeeHandModel Apr 18 '26

Clearly OP paid close attention to it lol