Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases

Re:Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases by fossuser on Sunday January 28, 2018 @12:28PM (#16252160)

Could you get in trouble for posting this given rules around security clearances?

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Re:Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases by fjsolwmv on Sunday January 28, 2018 @12:38PM (#16252214)

Since the military don't care about soldiers constantly broadcasting their locations, why would anyone HN post matter?

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Re:Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases by iser on Sunday January 28, 2018 @02:11PM (#16252835)

Everything shown in the Afghanistan heatmap is a military base.

The locations of these bases are not secrets, and the locals already know the layout thoroughly. What I am concerned about is that Strava released this data in such an easily accessible format, and also, whether they even had an internal conversation about managing sensitive material.

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Re:Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases by pc86 on Monday January 29, 2018 @08:14AM (#16257273)

> whether they even had an internal conversation about managing sensitive material

Probably not, because that's not their job. A service like Strava should not have confidential or sensitive material uploaded to it (obviously), but it's not on Strava to make sure the data it has is not confidential or sensitive.

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