Posted on Jan 29, 2018
How a popular running app reveals the discreet routines of life on base
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Where do troops at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey like to jog? Around the nuclear weapons storage sites, says a heat map of fitness paths from data tracking app Strava. Sourced from the native GPS data on user’s smartphones and watches, Strava Labs produced a global heat map, and with a click of a button and a minute on Google, anyone can find where on a military base it’s likely that people like to jog.
How a popular running app reveals the discreet routines of life on base
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The article from the Guardian was a lot more critical about the OPSEC considerations of this, and rightly so. Sure, for a base that you can get satellite imagery of, the lines on Strava aren't going to tell you anything. But there are a lot of things that one *could* learn from this, and it only takes one slip to give away useful information to a potential adversary. Here's the Guardian article:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases
Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases
Data about exercise routes shared online by soldiers can be used to pinpoint overseas facilities
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