• BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    Back in the Before Days, I went to a presentation by a journalist who was investigating secret bases in Africa and it was kinda wild how he was able to identify them using public satellite photos and Strava uploads.

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      5 months ago

      Throwback to when US troops and other assets revealed the locations of dozens of secret bases by uploading their runs to a fitness tracking app that put them all on a map

    • StalinStan [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      Like, netflix has to know. In a small town in Afghanistan they keep getting 50 or so IP addresses that pop up every time an episode of the boys drops in English. There is only so secret a big mitary base can be.

      Or pornhub knows based on small pockets of preferences that look exactly like military bases in random places across the world.