Re:Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
by starpilot on Sunday January 28, 2018 @03:54AM
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Are any of these locations actually secret?
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Re:Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
by Rebelgecko on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:15AM
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It's pretty easy to find Al-Udeid Air Base, which was secret until the mid 2000s. Some of the other details like patrols, convoy routes, and missile battery locations may not be classified, but are probably things the US military would rather not see online
Re:Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
by samstave on Sunday January 28, 2018 @12:05PM
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Given the visibility of HN threads I expect this data to get scrubbed post-haste - so download it / archive it ASAP
Re:Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
by markmark on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:25AM
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All I see are people looking at places they already know about and seeing that people have used Strava there. If these people already know the locations, so does anyone else who matters.
Re:Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
by RandomCSGeek on Sunday January 28, 2018 @10:43AM
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Not secret in the sense that the enemies of respective nations already knew them, but secret in the sense that only the militaries knew them, now the whole world does.
I think the patrol routes are more important(fun) than locations.