29 Jan Fitness app Striva inadvertently exposes the location of military bases
The popular activity app posted a world-wide heat map of the routs its users took back in 2017, but it wasn’t until now that eagle-eyed users recognized that that heat map likely inadvertently revealed military bases around the world, reports TechCrunch. While the heat map of major cities looks convoluted due to the number of users in those cities, many military facilities are in the middle of nowhere, thus if you are seeing a large number of heat map lines in remote locations, it suggests soldiers exercising at military bases.
If soldiers use the app like normal people do, by turning it on tracking when they go to do exercise, it could be especially dangerous. This particular track looks like it logs a regular jogging route. I shouldn’t be able to establish any Pattern of life info from this far away pic.twitter.com/Rf5mpAKme2
— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) January 27, 2018
Some heavy jogging activity on the beach around what looks like the reported CIA annex at Mogadishu airport pic.twitter.com/1OLP8zWKGl
— Adam Rawnsley (@arawnsley) January 27, 2018
Source: Fast Company
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