“Lose lips sink ships” has been taken to another level since social media brained damaged huge segments of the population to feel compelled to share everything they do in public.
At this point, I’m surprised there isn’t an app gamifying posting about “bathroom breaks”.
At this point, I’m surprised there isn’t an app gamifying posting about “bathroom breaks”.
i mean, i feel like this garbage comes close
https://www.gadgetreview.com/your-toilet-just-got-smarter-kohlers-599-dekoda-analyzes-what-you-flush
with such lines as
AI-powered health monitoring, transforming your most private moments into diagnostic opportunities.
who could possibly say no to an AI camera in your toilet?
Just took a shit. 23 courics. beat that!
My boy will always be number 1!
We haven’t just learned the location of the Charles de Gaulle, but also the name of the sailor who’s going to be scrubbing the toilets for the next few months.
I don’t get the point of logging an activity that took place on a moving ship anyway? The data would be nonsense.
usually it’s people tracking their activity for fitness reasons. most fitbits these days track heart rate as well as steps, so you can get a good idea of how active you are during the day (including during workouts). it just so happens they also track gps location.
This sounds more like a run. I haven’t seen Strava record or report GPS data for just steps taken throughout the day. But runs, walks, bike rides, and other sports will often record GPS.
But the op is right - if the ship is moving, the athlete will get “credit” for additional distance traveled, or they’ll lose distance, depending on which way they are running compared to the ship’s direction of travel, possibly balancing out if one of the other reverses direction at the appropriate time.
My point being that they may not be using it for the gps component, but other features like heart rate monitoring or meal tracking, etc.
“You have done 1,234,556 steps today!”
TBF, locations of aircraft carriers are not really deeply hidden secrets from the start.
E.g. Covered outposts of hidden troop buildups are the real things vulnerable to this kind of screw-ups.
There have been several examples in the past already of exactly this happening.I only share my strava activities with followers, unless I’m doing an event or I’m not starting from home/work/standard locations. And I have no real reason except for simple privacy (and a minor fear for stalkers and bikethiefs)
So you share your activities with the company Strava and all its employees and your followers and anyone who has managed to hack Strava either through technical means or social engineering and any law enforcement that demands access from Strava.
This may not be a problem for you, but for anyone in a military it could be.
What I mean is that this particular military guy did not even take that simple precaution.
