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Even the knowledge of exact guard patrol routes and possibly even timings inside a known military base can be extremely helpful information for someone planning an attack. Best part: you don't even have to place a scout in physical proximity as preparation and risk discovery. So this is less than ideal for military organizations.
These are most most certainly not patrol routes, but routes taken by people in their off duty time or in mandatory fitness time.
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#12Of course, the original point of that is to avoid people knowing where you live to come steal your expensive bike. But it's useful for other reasons too.
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These are most most certainly not patrol routes, but routes taken by people in their off duty time or in mandatory fitness time.
Well, a route taken regularly at 3 am is almost certainly not someone taking an off duty stroll. I do not know if you can readily figure that out from the data available through Strava. But if you can, this is bad.
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#14At this point Strava should pull all of its public data. All of these location based services are wide open to attack, correlating across pairs of them, scary.
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Well, a route taken regularly at 3 am is almost certainly not someone taking an off duty stroll. I do not know if you can readily figure that out from the data available through Strava. But if you can, this is bad.
How can you be so sure? Patrol shifts are normally rotated to prevent exactly that among other reasons, while someone having a regular non-patrol late shift (or early) and doing his exercise regularly at 3 am is also not unheard of.
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#17It'd be great if there were better "really free"--noncentralized--alternatives built on open source. Maybe there are.
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#18Or better teach people to turn their devices off.