Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases¶
Hern, A. (2018). Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases. The Guardian.
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Primes¶
- Side Channel Attack
- In physical and operational security it is utility-usage patterns inferring occupancy, car-park fill rates as a revenue proxy, and fitness-tracker traces revealing military bases.
This sourceStrava's aggregated activity heatmap inadvertently revealed the perimeters and patrol routes of military bases — an operational/physical side channel where legitimate aggregate output exposes protected location/occupancy state (companion physical side channels: smart-meter occupancy inference, car-park fill as revenue proxy).
- In physical and operational security it is utility-usage patterns inferring occupancy, car-park fill rates as a revenue proxy, and fitness-tracker traces revealing military bases.
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