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Fitness Tracking App Accidentally Reveals Secret US Military Bases, CIA "Black" Sites

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Monday, January 29, 2018 10:29 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Just t weird to pass up: a real downfall to IOT. And US personnel everywhere you look ...

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An interactive online fitness tracking map published in November of 2017 which compiles a running history of the location and routes of 27 million fitness-device users has unwittingly revealed the location, staffing, patrol routes and layout of U.S. and foreign military bases around the world.

San Francisco based fitness company Strava posted their "global heatmap" to their website, containing two years worth of fitness data across several fitness devices such as Jawbone and Fitbit. The map is not live, rather, it is a composite of overlapping routes.

In most urban areas such as major cities such as New York, Strava's map appears as solid neon lights following just about every road on which one might exercise.
aNew York, NY

Remote locations, however, such as deserts in places like Syria and Iraq are almost entirely dark - aside from clandestine locations where military personnel using fitness trackers are stationed. Personnel in some of the US government's most sensitive facilities have been unwittingly been broadcasting sensitive information up to and including underground tunnels.

At a site in northern Syria near a dam, where analysts have suspected the U.S. military is building a base, the map shows a small blob of activity accompanied by an intense line along the nearby dam, suggesting that the personnel at the site jog regularly along the dam, Schneider said.

“This is a clear security threat,” he said. “You can see a pattern of life. You can see where a person who lives on a compound runs down a street to exercise. In one of the U.S. bases at Tanf, you can see people running round in circles.” -WaPo

Air Force Col. John Thomas, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said Sunday that the U.S. military is looking into the issue.

FBI Academy: https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/styles/inline_image_desk
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NSA Headquarters, Fort Meade, MD https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/styles/inline_image_desk
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(more on that one here)

The man who discovered the phenomenon is Nathan Ruser, who is studying international security and the Middle East.

“I wondered, does it show U.S. soldiers?” Ruser said, before zooming in on Syria. “It sort of lit up like a Christmas tree.”

https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/957318498102865920/photo/1

Since Nathan's discovery, dozens of other internet sleuths have taken to Twitter to post their findings. Be sure to click the tweets and check out the replies to see even more;

Middle of nowhere Yemen (yes, we have personnel even in Yemen)
https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/957336408783454208/photo/1

Tanf, Syria
https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/957322145725669376/photo/1

Libya
https://twitter.com/LostWeapons/status/957360111239839744/photo/1

Antarctica (why????)

Chernobyl:


Strava issued a statement effectively telling users to mark their activities private if they don't want to broadcast locations:

“Our global heatmap represents an aggregated and anonymized view of over a billion activities uploaded to our platform,” the statement said. “It excludes activities that have been marked as private and user-defined privacy zones. We are committed to helping people better understand our settings to give them control over what they share.”

Talk about first world problems...


MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-29/fitness-tracking-app-acciden
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Monday, January 29, 2018 1:54 PM

THGRRI


Shit, that didn't last


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Monday, January 29, 2018 5:52 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Welcome back, Sig.

The best minds of Obamabots protecting our National Security, yep. And Service Personnel.

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Monday, January 29, 2018 8:30 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


LOL wow...

And people wonder why I don't have Alexa in my house.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Monday, January 29, 2018 11:06 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
LOL wow...

And people wonder why I don't have Alexa in my house.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

So that's why Alexa won't include you in my data feed.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean I'm not looked for you.

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Tuesday, January 30, 2018 6:47 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
So that's why Alexa won't include you in my data feed.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean I'm not looked for you.



I don't use it because I'm paranoid. I figured you wouldn't be using it either, maybe for other reasons...



Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, January 30, 2018 7:04 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Cartman asks Alexa "What is Love"



Priceless.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, March 24, 2018 1:07 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


I was just reminded of this thread.

Tomorrow night, Sat, the CBS newsmagazine show 48 Hours will show the case of Nicole Vanderhagen of Green Bay area (Bellevue, Allouez, DePere, Ledgeview, etc).
The perp was just convicted.

A Fit Bit was used to identify where suspects were at the time of her Murder.

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