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I do. It's about state coverage: every Boolean flag doubles the possible state of that bit of code: now you need to run everything twice to retain the coverage. FWIW, I know people…

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 t…

I like your reasoning

What's interesting is that they thought to look at Strava to see who had ridden there during the time period of interest. You'd need to think "let's see who cycled", and come up wi…

find and join a running/cycling club in your area

Activities marked as "Private" Don't leak. But in "enhanced privacy" mode your activities can be seen via the segment leaderboards. In any declared privacy zone, you stay off those…

> don't use a service that gobbles your data up, no matter how free it is we've conceded that option by living in a world where phones add GPS location data to cameras, you use pay…

> maybe not "When you are away from your house" but you could not turn on the live beacon if that's a concern people have schedules, their commute timetables reveal them. If I star…

I was pretty unhappy about, I can tell you. And yes, I mentioned that fact to make clear that physical security comes first, and because I cherish the irony myself. In Bristol, mos…

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 th…

It's too complex, and to keep a govt/ site secure, you'd need every person who runs round it to keep their info locked down. I think Strava will end up having specific "national-st…

I'd say it's advanced in terms of "escalating heatmap information into identifying people running round a submarine base". Yes, you can (should!) use aliases there, at which point …