re: Google Earth has censored discovery of an underground facilities in Antarctica

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Strava app reveals Top Secret bases in Antarctica, shape of a giant “C”
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The Outer Light
Published on Jan 29, 2018
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Recently a fitness application by Strava, has revealed a giant C shaped base in Antarctica.

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"There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing."

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Yep, everyone here is on acid.

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I don't know how to do screen shots.

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Is everyone here on acid?

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AUTHOR: JEREMY HSUJEREMY HSU SECURITY 01.29.1807:14 PM
THE STRAVA HEAT MAP AND THE END OF SECRETS

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A MODERN EQUIVALENT of the World War II era warning that “loose lips sink ships” may be “FFS don’t share your Fitbit data on duty.” Over the weekend, researchers and journalists raised the alarm about how anyone can identify secretive military bases and patrol routes based on public data shared by a “social network for athletes” called Strava. This past November, the San Francisco-based Strava announced a huge update to its global heat map of user activity that displays 1 billion activities—including running and cycling routes—undertaken by exercise enthusiasts wearing Fitbits or other wearable fitness trackers. Some Strava users appear to work for certain militaries or various intelligence agencies, given that knowledgeable security experts quickly connected the dots between user activity and the known bases or locations of US military or intelligence operations. Certain analysts have suggested the data could reveal individual Strava users by name.

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All Your Base Are Belong to Us The revelations began unspooling at a rapid pace after Nathan Ruser, a student studying international security at the Australian National University, began posting his findings via Twitter on Saturday afternoon. In a series of images, Ruser pointed out Strava user activities potentially related to US military forward operating bases in Afghanistan, Turkish military patrols in Syria, and a possible guard patrol in the Russian operating area of Syria.

Other researchers soon followed up with a dizzying array of international examples, based on cross-referencing Strava user activity with Google Maps and prior news reporting: a French military base in Niger, an Italian military base in Djibouti, and even CIA “black” sites. Several experts observed that the Strava heatmap seemed best at revealing the presence of mostly Western military and civilian operations in developing countries.

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