The US Department of Defense is reviewing whether the use of mobile phones should be banned at the Pentagon-where 23,000 military and civilian personnel work at the national military headquarters. The review began in early January.
In fact, the U.S. defense agency has been comprehensively reviewing the use of personal technology by the U.S. military around the world. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis (Jim Mattis) expanded the term to include GPS-enabled wearable electronic devices.
Dana White, the chief spokesperson of the Pentagon, said: "This is about GPS electronics. We are researching various electronic products." "The base was under attack," White said. "Information is power, and our opponents use information to plan attacks on us," she said.
After Mattis discovered that the heat map generated by the Strava fitness tracking app identified the exercise routes used by US military personnel around the world, it even expanded the scope of the review in some non-public US facilities. See the article about the event
"We are not talking about the Pentagon, the distant headquarters of the US military," Mattis said. "Therefore, we are studying how to maintain electronic security, just like we maintain any other security."
Military and civilian employees of the Pentagon are currently allowed to bring their personal or work mobile phones into the building-although in reality most buildings do not receive mobile phones.
Even so, people working in classified or safe areas must place their phones outside of specific boxes or small lockers. An American official said that the mobile phone ban will bring major logistical challenges to employees who deal with work, but they want to keep mobile phones at hand.
One option being explored is to place thousands of such boxes (cell phone jammer cabinets) or security lockers in an area where employees can place their devices before entering the building, so that there is no guarantee that their phones will not be brought with them. In the office area, in addition to the mobile phone signal shielding cabinet, it is also equipped with a mobile phone detection system. No mobile phone can escape the "clutch" of the mobile phone detection system.