Do you still run or share? In times of SocialMedia, daily, weekly, half-yearly work-out of event: Weretwas keeps its fitness data not only by smartphone, Smartwatch oderTracker for self-motivation, but shares it with virtual Training partners, with friends – or equally public. GPs will record where someone is jogging along or cycle, how fast and how long. If he also records his bodily functions, re is data on pulse, blood pressure and calorie consumption.
To what extent ors really want to know all this is put to point. AberPlattformen like Strava, which enable sharing of fitness data via tracker like Fitbitoder Apple Watch, are popular.
Apparently also among soldiers. This was discovered by Nathan Ruser, international security student in Canberra, Australia. Already in November, operators of fitness tracking app Strava had released a globaleHeatmap with data from runs that users had shared between 2015und 2017 with platform. Ruser investigated map of areas such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and discovered surprisingly vieleEinträges that pointed to camps of relief organizations and well-known and wenigerbekannte military bases.
Strava released ir global heatmap. 13 trillion GPS points from ir users (turning off data sharing is an option). Https://t.co/hA6jcxfBQI... It looks very pretty, but not amazing for op-Sec. US bases are clearly identifiable and mappable PIC.TWITTER.COM/RBGGNOZASQ
— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) January 27, 2018Soon, or users on Twitter started analyzing Heatmap. They found a cyclists in U.S. Air Force Base in Nevada, known as Area 51. They found joggers near a dam in Syria, where USAmutmaßlich a base. Journalist Jeffrey Lewis VomOnlinemagazin The Daily Beast EntdeckteStrava users in field of a long time secret Raketenkommandosin Taiwan. and ors, thanks to Strava, found new clues to einenmöglichen CIA base in Djibouti. The camp Marmal of Bundeswehr in Afghanistan was also to be found, writes journalist and Bundeswehr expert Thomas Wiegold on his blog.
On patrol forget to turn off trackingNow data on Heatmap is not displayed in real time and y are not linked to individual accounts eir. They stellenlediglich where in world users have run with Fitnesstrackern in Vergangenenbeiden years.
Security researchers and military experts see it as a problem anyway. Even if data in most cases do not reveal wirklichgeheime bases, you can deduce from m, diegegen Principles of OperationsSecurity (Op-SEC): That soldiers are stopped, no details ihrerMission with To share public, especially not in SozialenNetzwerken.
"This is a clear security risk," said Derdeutsche security researcher Tobias Schneider Imconversation with Washington Post. "You can see an everyday pattern. You can see where someone who lives on a site runs down street for training. " Those who analyse data more accurately can find information that is not intended for public. " This kind of news extraction from open sources, open source intelligence, seems to be quite fruitful in this case, "writes Wiegold.
Anor problem: Many users of Strava carry ir Fitnesstracker notonly while y are actually jogging or cycling, but throughout day. On Heatmap of Strava, individual tours are displayed, which go vonMilitärstützpunkten and are too long to represent a run. These could be patrols or replenishment routes, VermutenExperten like Schneider. Even if data is outdated, you could provide damitGeheimdiensten or attackers with insight into possible behavior of VonSoldaten, which has anor quality or than EinfacheSatellitenbilder.
Date Of Update: 30 January 2018, 12:04
