<story><title>Advanced Denanonymization through Strava</title><url>http://steveloughran.blogspot.com/2018/01/advanced-denanonymization-through-strava.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abcd_f</author><text>This is neither advanced nor denanonymization (sic).&lt;p&gt;They basically pluck an interesting route from the hotmap (as per other people&amp;#x27;s recent discovery), pretend that they have also run&amp;#x2F;biked this route and Strava will show them names of others who run&amp;#x2F;biked the same way. That&amp;#x27;s clever, but that&amp;#x27;s not &amp;quot;advanced&amp;quot; by any means.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also not a deanonymization as there&amp;#x27;s really no option in Strava for public _anonymous_ sharing to begin with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fortythirteen</author><text>The best hacks always appear overly simple, or even slightly benign, once explained.&lt;p&gt;You could potentially use the hack the author explained with one of those possible black-sites in Africa to see who&amp;#x27;s deployed there. A little more research and you can find their home address in the states. Now, tell me an enterprising counter-intel or terrorist organization wouldn&amp;#x27;t want that info.</text></comment>
<story><title>Advanced Denanonymization through Strava</title><url>http://steveloughran.blogspot.com/2018/01/advanced-denanonymization-through-strava.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abcd_f</author><text>This is neither advanced nor denanonymization (sic).&lt;p&gt;They basically pluck an interesting route from the hotmap (as per other people&amp;#x27;s recent discovery), pretend that they have also run&amp;#x2F;biked this route and Strava will show them names of others who run&amp;#x2F;biked the same way. That&amp;#x27;s clever, but that&amp;#x27;s not &amp;quot;advanced&amp;quot; by any means.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also not a deanonymization as there&amp;#x27;s really no option in Strava for public _anonymous_ sharing to begin with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wallace_f</author><text>This is a good example to bring up when people talk about a digital bill of rights. It fundamentally shouldn&amp;#x27;t be so easy to undermine individual privacy and military op sec, but when you allow private data to be shared recklessly, you get that.</text></comment>