{"id":75674,"date":"2018-01-31T15:02:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T23:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/stravas-just-the-start-the-us-militarys-losing-war-against-data-leakage"},"modified":"2018-01-31T15:02:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T23:02:35","slug":"stravas-just-the-start-the-us-militarys-losing-war-against-data-leakage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/stravas-just-the-start-the-us-militarys-losing-war-against-data-leakage","title":{"rendered":"Strava\u2019s Just the Start: The US Military\u2019s Losing War Against Data Leakage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stravas-just-the-start-the-us-militarys-losing-war-against-data-leakage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Defense Department can\u2019t stop the rising river of of digital metadata \u2014 or prevent enemies from dipping into it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Pentagon has long wrapped <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camp_Justice_(Diego_Garcia)\">Diego Garcia<\/a> in a veil of secrecy, barring media from the Indian Ocean island even as its base and airfield became a key node in America\u2019s wars in the Middle East. But a hole appeared in the veil last Saturday, when a mobile fitness-tracking app company called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/security\/a15927450\/identify-individual-users-with-stravas-heatmap\/\">Strava posted a heatmap<\/a> of its subscribers\u2019 activity \u2014 including the routes that sailors and airmen take as they jogged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you saw from the running patterns is exactly what I experienced when I was deployed there five times between 1985 and 1999,\u201d Air Force General Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recalled in a breakfast with reporters on Tuesday. A heavily secluded jungle trail runs along the island\u2019s western edge, Selva said, perfect for an ambush. \u201cI\u2019ve run it a thousand times. If I had a FitBit, I would have contributed to the map of Diego Garcia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2018\/01\/stravas-just-start-us-militarys-losing-war-against-data-leakage\/145632\/\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2018\/01\/stravas-just-st...ge\/145632\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defense Department can\u2019t stop the rising river of of digital metadata \u2014 or prevent enemies from dipping into it. The Pentagon has long wrapped Diego Garcia in a veil of secrecy, barring media from the Indian Ocean island even as its base and airfield became a key node in America\u2019s wars in the Middle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}