OSINT can literally get you killed

"I wonder if I can find US drone bases in Djibouti" *Literally 30 seconds later*

"I wonder who's running around this apparently abandoned airfield in Somalia"

The next most noticeable feature in Djibouti is this several mile long track on a random dry lake bed

I have no idea what's going on on Jarvis Island

Didn't expect this thread to get picked up like it did. Some clarifications: 1. Ghost Somalian airbase is a known UNMAS base: reliefweb.int/report/somalia… 2. The drone base isn't much of a secret. Strava, however, highlights Western military bases in the Middle East.

Reminds me of when Internet Heroes tracked down a terrorist training camp and showed off because spies "couldn't". Or, y'know, they were watching it and you clowns just gave the game away.

How can you tell the military bases are Western?

right up your Street Ray

Looks like a priest. #vaticantrackclub? Or maybe a squid.

Jarvis island is a location used by a virtual cycling app named @zwift.

also uses Teanu Island in the Solomon Islands

That zwift track is known to get under the water, so it matches perfectly goo.gl/images/qjLPsA

Wonder if anybody is running at Area 51 😂

watermark?

Artificial ‘GPS’ tracks for a virtual cycle race called Zwift. They use a bunch of remote islands to plot competitors’ tracks.

Per Strava, Zwift is excluded.

OK, I guess there must be dozens of people riding bikes over these mountainous, forested, uninhabited, remote Pacific islands and the waters between them.

Nah, obviously it is the local fauna using activity trackers. Specifically, on Jarvis Island, the feral cat population.

However, it is actually Zwift. Point is, it proves that the data is subject to manipulation. I simply shown what Strava said. Their methods of preventing the introduction of fake GPS data are obviously not effective.

Zwift pre-dated the introduction of the “Virtual Ride” activity type, any new Zwift (and several other virtual riding apps) rides/runs default to Virtual Ride/Run. With BKool/Kinomap it would be almost impossible to know if ride was real or virtual.

It may very well be legacy data from Zwift which had inadvertently been pulled into other data sets. Jarvis was one of the first islands they used.

Looks haunted

They used to mine mountains of bird poop there. (Serious)

Zwift

It’s zwift island

Snapchat logo, obvs.

Zwift

Zwift

Ooooh shit

Long shot, but maybe car racing? A lot of disused air fields get turned into race tracks.

And I wonder I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder Why Why, why, why, why, why She ran away And I wonder Where she will stay-ay My little runway A-run, run, run, run, runway

have a location in Baidoa. @UNDSS_Kenya @UNSomalia

#strava #allyourbasesarebelongtous

Wonder if the BHAA know about this @Relaxyourface

Next @cusslerOFFICIAL book material

Not a local Somali I'd wager....

Why?

Chineese border cities with North Korea are interesting too.

And you can see the paths of the guided tours trough pyong yang

Where is it or what are the coordinates of the airfield?

This is historic date as well right? Saw quite a lot of activity in new map in one base abandoned in 2015

does . . . does the pentagon know this is accessible publically? seems like #opsecfail

😂😂😂😂😂

This is fucking bonkers.

Any idea what's at 5.75233/30.98038?

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The fact that there’s a landuse polygon and roads present makes me think that Strava traces aren’t how this site got discovered and mapped in the first place

Besides which MS uses NAIP imagery as their image classifier hello world. Is it plausible that these sites couldn’t already be found via Landsat?

So, exercise can get you killed.

"We kill based on metadata."

It's called "target threat matrix"

Forgive the ignorance, but how is this OSINT? Does the app/tech not keep user's detail's private?

The “intelligence” is the activity heat map (which is public).

This is why when a company tells you they anonymize location data, tell them to F’off.

Doesn't matter if the data is "anonymous," the metadata gives away 1. Base locations, 2. Perimeters and patrol routes, 3. Common convoy routes. And it's free online for anyone to look at. Some of the stuff I'm Syria and Iraq is far more sensitive, i.e. FOBs in civilian compounds

Omg

CC @Shitty_Future

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

man...

Maps causing problems

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here’s some examples...