OpSec derp

[seminole97]

I find this kind of staff fascinating:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...eals-secret-us-military-bases-cia-black-sites

“An interactive online fitness tracking map published in November of 2017 which compiles a running history of the location and routes of 27 million fitness-device users has unwittingly revealed the location, staffing, patrol routes and layout of U.S. and foreign military bases around the world.

San Francisco based fitness company Strava posted their "global heatmap" to their website, containing two years worth of fitness data across several fitness devices such as Jawbone and Fitbit. The map is not live, rather, it is a composite of overlapping routes.

In most urban areas such as major cities such as New York, Strava's map appears as solid neon lights following just about every road on which one might exercise.

Remote locations, however, such as deserts in places like Syria and Iraq are almost entirely dark - aside from clandestine locations where military personnel using fitness trackers are stationed. Personnel in some of the US government's most sensitive facilities have been unwittingly been broadcasting sensitive information up to and including underground tunnels.“

 

[BelemNole]

Is an interesting story, but I can't believe anyone still visits that site.

 

[dmm5157]

Ah, the unintended consequences of technology. What a complete cluster eff.

 

[seminole97]

Is an interesting story, but I can't believe anyone still visits that site.

The comments section is like a safari of the deranged, but I still find the site itself a great aggregator of storylines with details that usually don’t percolate up in other places until later, if at all.

 

[BelemNole]

Meh, I try to avoid being fed russian propaganda but to each their own.

 

[seminole97]

Meh, I try to avoid being fed russian propaganda but to each their own.

I don’t have preferred propagandists.

I find eating from only one source of propaganda isn’t as nourishing.

There is no objective source of information.

Given that, I prefer exposure to as much information as possible, because I find I learn more about what is important by recognizing what gets left out by a source.

 

[HulaNole]

Is it still called learning when the information is false?

 

[seminole97]

Is it still called learning when the information is false?

Maybe it’s being born in Missouri, the ‘show me state’, but I always prefer to review as much as I can and make my own determinations, and not simply accept someone else’s declaration of true/false.
I can’t think of any outlet I could place faith like that in.

But it’s usually not a matter of outright falsehood insomuch as emphasis and what gets left out. I remember years ago reading a collection of eye witness accounts to an altercation over a parking lot door ding that resulted in a man being shot.

You weren’t likely to get the ‘truth’ just picking one of those recollections and declaring it such.