Geheime CIA en militaire bases bekend geworden door fitness horloges…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Eindelijk krijgt de VS een koek van eigen deeg: militair en CIA personeel die rondlopen met fitness horloges en andere fitness apparatuur die gegevens opslaan, hebben de geheime locaties van hun bases ongewild bekend gemaakt, doordat deze horloges/apparatuur gps gegevens verzamelen.

Ik dacht dat ik erin zou blijven, in een lachstuip wel te verstaan, toen ik het volgende artikel van Tyler Durden las:

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

January 29, 2018 at 8:09 am

Written by Tyler Durden

(ZHE) — 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.

New York City, New York

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.

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Lost Weapons@LostWeapons

You can literally spend less than a minute on Stravas new data service and find sensitive sites. Nice patriot position you have there

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:

FBI Academy, Stafford, VA



NSA Headquarters:

NSA Headquarters, Fort Meade, MD

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Alec Muffett@AlecMuffett

Cross-referencing @mjranum‘s recent post about using Google Maps to identify CIA “Black” sites in Djibouti, with the heat-map, appears to offer corroboration https://freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/2018/01/21/that-was-too-easy/ 

(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.”

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Nathan Ruser@Nrg8000

Strava released their global heatmap. 13 trillion GPS points from their users (turning off data sharing is an option). https://medium.com/strava-engineering/the-global-heatmap-now-6x-hotter-23fc01d301de  … It looks very pretty, but not amazing for Op-Sec. US Bases are clearly identifiable and mappable

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:

Eliot Higgins

@EliotHiggins

Rather interested to see what these two circles of activity are on the Strava map, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, Yemen https://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#14.15/45.06703/15.88812/hot/all 

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Tobias Schneider


@tobiaschneider

Fitness and social media company Strava releases activity heat map. Excellent for locating military bases (h/t to @Nrg8000). https://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#6.06/39.14391/35.00835/hot/all  pic.twitter.com/7zzNcYV42e

Tobias Schneider

@tobiaschneider

Somebody forgot to turn off their Fitbit. Markers trace known military outposts, supply and patrol routes. pic.twitter.com/7YTzoqKgDl

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Tobias Schneider


@tobiaschneider

Replying to @tobiaschneider

Somebody forgot to turn off their Fitbit. Markers trace known military outposts, supply and patrol routes. pic.twitter.com/7YTzoqKgDl

Tobias Schneider

@tobiaschneider

Worth browsing a bit. Three positions around the US outpost at Tanf: pic.twitter.com/jS7S4LR2QS

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@tobiaschneider

Replying to @tobiaschneider

A lot of people are going to have to sit thru lectures come Monday morning.

Tobias Schneider

@tobiaschneider

So much cool stuff to be done. Outposts around Mosul (or locals who enjoy running in close circles around their houses): pic.twitter.com/wHItJwYUUI

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Lost Weapons@LostWeapons

You can literally spend less than a minute on Stravas new data service and find sensitive sites. Nice patriot position you have there pic.twitter.com/eYS8TOuT0F

Lost Weapons@LostWeapons

hmmm i wonder whats at this random heavy route in what looks like a mountainous and remote area of libya. Oh look some bunkers that were targeted in 2011 pic.twitter.com/gg5VFIPVQZ

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Lost Weapons@LostWeapons

You can literally spend less than a minute on Stravas new data service and find sensitive sites. Nice patriot position you have there pic.twitter.com/eYS8TOuT0F

Ryan McGregor 🎄@JUSTSHEKEL

Pentagon tunnels pic.twitter.com/4p3tIdNIRQ

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More Strava maps:

Chernobyl:



Antarctica:

Unidentified island:

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…

By Tyler Durden / Republished with permission / Zero Hedge / Report a typo

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