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I looked this up on the map and the only activity I see is in The Ellipse and Lafayette Square. I see no activity at all around the White house itself or the South Lawn. Has the data since been scrubbed? The Pentagon is also entirely dark.
this is what I see when I look at the south lawn https://imgur.com/DslRELO
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look at the whitehouse lawn in the heat map, there's what looks like data from someone walking the yard.
Obama wears/wore a Fitbit. But the tracks on top of the WH look like intermediate paths, e.g. someone jogs past the SE corner at e.g. 9:20, and the GPS signal is lost, and then they are spotted again at 9:40 at the NW corner, then the line would be drawn across the WH. Like any other data breach, it speaks for the customers who want offline, non-cloud solutions...
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this is what I see when I look at the south lawn https://imgur.com/DslRELO
it's faint, indicating it may only be one or two users who tracked their activity there, but it's there.
One popular route on a base in Iraq has been nicknamed “Base Perimeter” by the U.S. runners who regularly use it. I'm truly gobsmacked that it never occurred to anyone that this might pose a problem. Maybe not the 19 year old grunt who signed up because getting a master's in CS wasn't in his future, but c'mon, there isn't someone responsible for preventing data leakage? This is not some corner case, or some side-chan…
Institutions tend to optimize so they run close to the redline, busy with a lot of stuff as it is. Adding more tasks, making them important, making everyone get educated and compliant is a huge undertaking.
Noticing and discerning what needs to be prioritized, in areas presenting such volatility and new possibilities as smartphones, apps, and data security could be daunting to do selectively.
They could ban cell phones / bt devices altogether but that will likely not go well.
As for our relationship with security, I find Richard Feynman’s experiences delightfully relevant:
http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/34/3/FeynmanLosAlamos.h...
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What activity would generate the tracks in the middle of the ocean? As I understand Strava whenever I switch it on it tracks my activity at that moment until I switch it off. Looking at the heat maps I get the impression that there is always on data being tracked in addition to those that are intending to track a specific activity. Do fitbit worn 24/7 submit data constantly to strava?
the more I look over the heat map the more I think that there's always on data being tracked out here. there's NO WAY this is just running and cycling routes.
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the more I look over the heat map the more I think that there's always on data being tracked out here. there's NO WAY this is just running and cycling routes.
There's a button with waves which I assumed at first was swimming but seems to also trace boat routes.