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Opsec/Persec question
I am ragingly mad at my boyfriend right now for reasons I don't think I should post here. But help - how secure are personal cell phones?
Re: Opsec/Persec question
Then pretty secure. It takes a federl warrant and a huge PITA process for us to listen to cell phones. The chances of someone being able to listen are slim unless one of you are wanted in a federal case. It's not 100% secure, nothing is, but the chance of someone having over hear equipment or accidently coming across your call is slim.
Please excuse my ignorance if this is a dumb question - but do terrorist groups use anything like that to target military movements?
I'm pissed because he was being cagey and vague, and I didn't understand that he was trying to tell me his deployment was a definite. To give me an idea of the date, he mentioned two things that I have personally going on around that time. So I got confused and thought we were still talking hypothetically, and repeated the month back to him. And then he sighed and went silent, and I realized I just defeated the purpose of his cageyness.
I don't get the same briefing as you, LT. You need to flat out tell me "I can't say this right now over the phone for security reasons. We'll talk about it when I get home".
Grrrr. Now I feel wicked stupid.
Haha. Don't feel stupid or get mad. You're learning. DH and I used to discuss everything by referencing someone's birthday or anniversary around that time. You will get better at picking up on hints and speaking in code. No worries.
As long as you're not the one running around blabbing on facebook and your blog that he'll be deploying X date X year, you'll be fine.
Or driving around with a countdown on your vehicle. Or blabbing on FB about how he is leaving on X date for X amount of months or weeks or whatever. I seriously feel like the OPSEC police on most days.
I definitely recommend making a calendar that just you and your SO have. H and I have one that he put together for every month between now and roughly the end of his next deployment. He has a copy on the ship with him, and I have one at home. Each month is listed as a color, and we have random words and/or symbols for each day. So for example, if their scheduled leave date was January 1st, he would say "we are scheduled to leave on Brown Yankees. Then i look at the calendar to see that Brown is January, and Yankees are the 1st. It makes it a million times easier to talk about dates and follow OPSEC without doing things like "47 days before the dog's birthday" or things like that.
Thanks for the words of encouragement
Two things this board has
taught me is to be overly cautious about stuff like this.... and to walk
into oncoming traffic before ever buying a camouflage purse.
That is all.
haha this made me LOL :-D
BFP #2 02/05/2013 EDD 09/19/2013