As the
Independence class Littoral Combat Ship USS
Manchester plied the waters of the West Pacific in 2023, it had a totally unauthorized
satellite internet antenna secretly installed on top of the ship by its gold crew’s chiefs. That antenna and associated WiFi network were set up without the knowledge of the ship’s captain,
about this absolutely bizarre scheme. It presented such a huge security risk, violating the basic tenets of operational security and cyber hygiene, that it is hard to believe.
It was all so that the chiefs on the ship’s ‘gold crew’ (the LCS alternates between two crews) could check sports scores, text home, and
stream movies, investigators learned, according to
Navy Times.