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Strava, a smartphone app that tracks "athletic activity" using GPS, published an interactive heatmap of user activity around the world. That heatmap included some U.S. military bases:
Military personnel around the world have been publicly sharing their exercise routes online - including those inside or near military bases.
Online fitness tracker Strava has published a "heatmap" showing the paths its users log as they run or cycle. It appears to show the structure of foreign military bases in countries like Syria and Afghanistan, as soldiers move around inside.
The US military is examining the heatmap, a spokesman said. Air Force Colonel John Thomas, a spokesman for US Central Command, told the Washington Post that the US military was reviewing the implications.
Strava said it had excluded activities marked as private from the map. Users who record their exercise data on Strava have the option of making their movements public or private. Private data, the company said, has never been included.
The "private" option is for people who like to track their step count during sexual activity, not protecting the operational security of the military base you're stationed at.
Also at The Guardian, which contains more examples than the BBC for those who don't want to enable JavaScript to view the interactive one linked to above.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Monday January 29 2018, @07:00PM
You seem to assume an enemy who already knows where the base is. Where it's coffee house is. Etc.
The point of TFA was that a secret, formerly unknown base, becomes discovered because of clusters of fitness tracking devices with unusually good scores.
I was speculating about other ways to discover such bases. Such as a number of known IDs that seem to move from the vicinity of military bases (known locations) to foreign locations in tight clusters in unknown, unpublished, and possibly behind enemy lines locations.
I was also speculating about possible measures to prevent discovery of secret unknown bases. If the enemy doesn't know where the base is, they can't plant an IED. If the base is a small secret base, its security might be largely based on its secrecy. It may not be heavily defended. Once the enemy discovers the location of a secret rebel base from fitness trackers, the imperial stormtroopers can storm right in.
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