Weighing Risk When the Reporting Is Dangerous

Weighing Risk When the Reporting Is Dangerous

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/29/insider/nyt-journalists-abroad.html

Presumably your teams guard against electronic tracking of their devices - cellphones, satellite phones, cameras, videos, drones, whatever - as done by spy agencies and the military. This will avoid betraying persons, locations and contents being covered.

Loss of confidentiality is a casualty, like truth, of war, of a highly electronified world where copious signals are being emitted and grabbed, flooding the air, sea, land and space with disinformation perhaps more than trustworthy kinds.

Cybersecurity has evolved into an unreliable mess of consumables which threaten the health of those it promises to protect. Key targets are journalists who excel at reporting but remain babes in cybersec and safety of sources, where leaks are used to ensnare unskilled leakers and credulous recipients.

War reporting is subject to the same ploys, feints, deceptions, lures, betrayals and the rest of combat's do or die. When a topic or site garners much attention from journalists, it is highly likely electronic snoops are on the case, too often directing fire at the inexperienced consumers and producers of news.

The slew of politicians and celebrities which have invaded Ukraine carrying electronics galore, heaving streams of data back to the homelands, are more than likely aiding the contestants with more information than local inhabitants and prisoners of war and peace.

SCIFs (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) to assure comsec and infosec do not seem to be in evidence.