OpSec: Fitness app reveals secret military locations

The fitness app Strava allows you to share your training sessions with friends, acquaintances, and other users. This way, popular running routes and other paths can be quickly exchanged. A new feature, the Heatmap, shows which places are popular for training, whether you actively share the route or not.

This has now become a problem for various units, as soldiers have been running the app during their training sessions. Military bases in war zones light up like a lighthouse in the darkness. The cover image shows a secret US Special Forces base in Syria, which has unfortunately been exposed. OpSec needs improvement. There will probably be some retraining sessions. If you would like to go on a discovery tour yourself, you can find the Heatmap HERE. If you enjoy running:

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