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by codethief 488 days ago
The Russian military would beg to differ, see the sibling's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43106162
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That's referring to people literally posting selfies online (with the result of giving away their location by either metadata or geo-guessing).

Which is a process and procedure issue, more then a security issue on the phones themselves (except in so far as it's really obvious there's a solid need for an OS for a battlefield device which strips all that stuff out by default).