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[chris_n]

Just watch The Capture on BBC

[marshman]

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[AE-NMidlands]

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I recently read an article highlighting some of the clever ways data is being abused. One case mentioned in it was of someone that had accessed Fitbit data (no hacking involved - lots of people don't secure the sharing settings apparently) and then worked out where a top secret military establishment was and who was based there. It seems the personnel there were fond of going for a run around the same track, which happened to be the perimeter, and those people were all sharing their exercise performance via Fitbit.

quite a while ago actually: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... army-bases

[dan_b]

Yeah, this was the US Military in their Afghanistan campaign - going out doing fitness training around their base in Baghram but logging it on their Garmin/Fitbit, which then was being uploaded to Strava, and all of a sudden you could see on Strava a concentration of new running routes that simply shouldn't have been there. They all got a bollocking.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42853072

Exactly. My cameras cover the outside of my house and there is nothing about me or my comings and goings that is interesting to the Chinese government. However a network of thousands (millions?) of seemingly innocent and innocuous cameras could become "interesting". I noticed that my local Tesco has Hikvision cameras too. Imagine if a large number of people in military fatigues suddenly started shopping in a particular Tesco that could be indicative of troop movements. What if they capture a POW, the facial recognition could identify where the POW lives/shops, who their family is, etc.

I hope I'm not being too fanciful here. But has WW111 already begun?

I recently read an article highlighting some of the clever ways data is being abused. One case mentioned in it was of someone that had accessed Fitbit data (no hacking involved - lots of people don't secure the sharing settings apparently) and then worked out where a top secret military establishment was and who was based there. It seems the personnel there were fond of going for a run around the same track, which happened to be the perimeter, and those people were all sharing their exercise performance via Fitbit.

When all this seemingly fairly low level and useless data was correlated properly, it revealed a surprising amount of useful information, from the identities of the individuals, to their shift patterns, overall fitness, leave periods family and friend information etc. Pretty easy to estimate what the establishment was working on, too, based on the known skills and experience of all those personnel being tracked, which a fair few of them had kindly put up on sites like LinkedIn. The days of needing spies on the ground are fading fast, I think, we're willingly doing their jobs for them now.