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Last week, Andrew Tate got into a Twitter fight with Greta Thunberg, both taking jibes at each other. It got ugly — and the next day, Romanian authorities used a pizza box visible in his response video to confirm his location and arrest him.
You genuinely could not write a better operational security case study.
Operational security, or OPSEC, started as a military concept — protecting information about your own operations from an adversary who might use it against you. In the digital age, it applies to everyone: activists, executives, journalists, and apparently influencers who pick fights on Twitter.
This post is an introduction to OPSEC principles for individuals — what it means, why it matters, and where most people fail.