If you share information online and are not extremely careful on what you share, then someone somewhere will work out how to exploit that information.
Now I thought people who used Strava understood this as there has been plenty in the past of Strava compromising military security let alone personal security.
Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases | GPS | The Guardian
Now researchers at the North Carolina State University Raleigh have found privacy issues with Strava’s heat map feature. A feature introduced to improve users safety.
Strava heatmap feature can be abused to find home addresses (bleepingcomputer.com)
It is the repetition that is the issue.
And before people get excited because I have told you I am out of the office – I am here alone, Diana and others are still at the house and office!
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
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