Perhaps the closest to the current operational security issues that it noted, however, was the layout of the Burning Man festival in the Nevadan desert. Strava demonstrated that the new heatmap was detailed enough to see kiteboarding in Mexico, to track the route of the Camino de Santiago across northern Spain and to see the sea route of the Ironman triathalon in Kona, Hawaii. It is a direct visualisation of Strava’s global network of athletes.” Our global heatmap is the largest, richest, and most beautiful dataset of its kind.
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When Strava released the heatmap, an updated version of one it had previously published in 2015, it announced that “this update includes six times more data than before – in total 1 billion activities from all Strava data through September 2017. The installation has been the focus of numerous conspiracies involving extraterrestrial life, though its only confirmed use is as a flight testing facility.
It is administered by Edwards Air Force Base in southern California. RAF Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands. Air Force military installation located at Groom Lake in southern Nevada. In Helmand province, Afghanistan, for instance, the locations of forward operating bases can be clearly seen, glowing white against the black map. In locations like Afghanistan, Djibouti and Syria, the users of Strava seem to be almost exclusively foreign military personnel, meaning that bases stand out brightly. “Some light markers over known Russian positions, no notable colouring for Iranian bases … A lot of people are going to have to sit through lectures come Monday morning.” “In Syria, known coalition (ie US) bases light up the night,” writes analyst Tobias Schneider. “If soldiers use the app like normal people do, by turning it on tracking when they go to do exercise, it could be especially dangerous,” Ruser added, highlighting one particular track that “looks like it logs a regular jogging route.” “US Bases are clearly identifiable and mappable.” The solution to the Top-secret government org. The heatmap “looks very pretty” he wrote, but is “not amazing for Op-Sec” – short for operational security. Nathan Ruser, an analyst with the Institute for United Conflict Analysts, first noted the lapse. However, over the weekend military analysts noticed that the map is also detailed enough that it potentially gives away extremely sensitive information about a subset of Strava users: military personnel on active service. The app can be used on various devices including smartphones and fitness trackers like Fitbit to see popular running routes in major cities, or spot individuals in more remote areas who have unusual exercise patterns. And top amongst those is a base located on a small atoll many, many miles away from the U.S. The map, released in November 2017, shows every single activity ever uploaded to Strava – more than 3 trillion individual GPS data points, according to the company. military bases and facilities are, naturally enough, within the mainland United States, overseas territories and small landholdings make up some of the most mysterious entries in the shadowy military base lineup.
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