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| All sensitive sites in the world discovered by fitbit. |
| 2018-01-28 |
| By newc Strava, an Israeli based company has released all their fitbit data from across the globe. Including the most sensitive areas of every country posing security risks that could identify who works where. We even see runners on the newly created Islands China made and also in Langley. This is a problem. Maybe they could ask Google for an overlay of protected sites but I imagine the cat is well out of the bag now. If they like to capture data anywhere close to the way I like to, everybody knows where everybody is on this global game of chess. |
| Posted by:newc |
| #15 I guess the moral of the story is: If you are going to get kidnapped in a third world shithole, make sure you wear your fitbit? |
| Posted by: newc 2018-01-28 22:19 |
| #14 the first fitbit flexes don't have GPS, just accelerometers in the chip |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-01-28 18:04 |
| #13 The Guardian Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases |
| Posted by: newc 2018-01-28 18:00 |
| #12 Congratulations, new mods and newc too. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-01-28 14:36 |
| #11 Oh my goodness, you've got to be kidding. They ban iPhones from sensitive sites but let troops and officers wear their Fitbit which is essentially an iPhone on your wrist. This is probably one of the most stupid things I've ever heard of...well maybe not the most stupid, after all these are the same geniuses who bought computers for sensitive programs from China and virus protection software from a Russian company with known ties to the KGB (what the hell do they call themselves these days?). Yep our Cyberwarfare guys are the best in the world...gives me a nose bleed thinking about this. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-01-28 13:08 |
| #10 Workflows and decision trees, I like it! -Skidmark- |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-01-28 12:13 |
| #9 I had no media source but the twitter accounts and what I looked up. You did original reporting, which is fine, newc — that’s why I gave you the byline, like badanov gets for his own work. And like him, you provided a key information source. We’ll get you trained. As soon as our new moderators — Frank G, 3dc, and Glenmore, to be followed shortly by Alaska Paul and Skidmore — climb a little higher on the learning curve, we’ll write up a post on how to categorize things, ok? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-01-28 05:15 |
| #8 "#7 Here is today's real challenge for DARPA and others." Something like http://www.globalgeophysical.com/ is what you seek. Good Company but others may be more on top of it so to speak. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-01-28 03:09 |
| #7 Here is today's real challenge for DARPA and others. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-01-28 02:36 |
| #6 My takeaway: They have traffic round-abouts in London also. It's a plague, I tell you, a plague..! |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2018-01-28 01:39 |
| #5 Yes TW. I do not file things right and thats a problem. I had no media source but the twitter accounts and what I looked up. Weirded out on sending everyone there. I probably should have never said a thing but it was like Pokemon on the ranges so it is not anything new, really. Just "Harmless" IOT making the world.... really I do not know. Dangerous? |
| Posted by: newc 2018-01-28 01:31 |
| #4 You are welcome, newc. Please mark your original work in the way I did above, ok? I put the Strava link in the source box, as you’d left that blank. Finally, I put it in Science&Technology because newish technology is involved. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-01-28 00:45 |
| #3 DNI Worse |
| Posted by: newc 2018-01-28 00:34 |
| #2 Thanks for the cleanup. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-01-28 00:23 |
| #1 Ha ha! They'll never catch me! |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-01-28 00:20 |