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A comment on Advanced Denanonymization through Strava. Parent comment

Re:Advanced Denanonymization through Strava by contender_x on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @02:24PM (#16268137)
I couldn't think of any other good title. It's going from a heatmap to identifying individuals, who, if they didn't use an alias, are now identified. And of the 16 people faster than me on that circuit, 14 used full names.
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Re:Advanced Denanonymization through Strava by dracoXT on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @06:05AM (#16272997)
They posted their data as public so they could be found and identified anyway. Heatmap just speeds up the process by letting us know where to search.
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Re:Advanced Denanonymization through Strava by contender_x on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:45PM (#16275752)
Gave the map of the route to fake. Without that you'd need time to trace round buildings and training areas you see in satellite pics. Which is the kind of thing governments have the time to do (imagine mapmyride seeing an uptake in users in N Korea); I didn't.
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