Strava fitness app revealed the location of secret military bases

If you are one of those who usually exercise with the help of your mobile phone, surely you know Strava. It is a fitness application, available for both iOS and Android, tremendously popular among users who practice all kinds of sports.

It offers users the possibility of training through a more motivating formula than doing it without screens. Because in addition to exercising, they have the opportunity to access interesting routes, analyze their performance, compare themselves with other users.And even challenge them.

The fact is that in the last few hours, Strava has been at the center of controversy Just a couple of months ago, The makers of this app released a new feature. A system of maps made based on user routes. Something that could be very interesting, but that has caused problems.

Because? Expert analysts have just discovered that these maps can go as far as to reveal the outlines of military bases, belonging to the United States. And spread all over the world. The problem is that not only the bases that everyone knows would have been revealed. Those that are secret would also have been discovered.

Secret bases discovered in Baghdad, Iraq or Afghanistan

The maps in question have been prepared by the Strava Labs team itself. And these collect the routes or movements that have been made by users around the world Strava is an application widely used by users who practice cycling, so the routes can be very useful for them.

These maps include information on the length of the route, obviously, but also on the intensity of each of the sections of a journey. But beware, these maps have shown much more than what would be required. On the map of Iraq, for example, reveals a series of military bases of the anti-jihadist coalition,led by the United States.

Thus, they can be found located in Taji, north of Baghdad; Qayyarah, south of Mosul; Speicher, right next to Tikrit and Al-Asad, in Anbar. These, which could be the best known, are not the only ones that appear on the map. There are other bases that are more inconspicuous and are located in northern and western Iraq

Then, bases in Afghanistan or Syria, in the northwest, are also exposed. Kurdish forces, allied with the United States, are there. An analyst named Tobias Schneider has been commissioned to discover these locations on the maps. This is so because, if someone has decided to run near a military base, the system has been in charge of delimiting the structure of the buildings with luminous lines.

Somebody forgot to turn off their Fitbit. Markers trace known military outposts, supply and patrol routes. pic.twitter.com/7YTzoqKgDl

- Tobias Schneider (@tobiaschneider) January 27, 2018

The military should turn off their GPS

The problem is that, apart from the military bases that are already known worldwide, other military bases that probably had to remain secret have also been revealed. The people who would be leaving these routes marked on the maps would be, logically, military officers who have decided to train near the bases where they are stationedOr its surroundings.

The moral of all this, for the security of those who are part of the military strategy of the United States and other countries, would be the need to deactivate the location orGPS tracking of your mobile devices Your workouts are revealing secrets that not everyone should know.