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by contender_x 3063 days ago
I couldn't think of any other good title. It's going from a heatmap to identifying individuals, who, if they didn't use an alias, are now identified. And of the 16 people faster than me on that circuit, 14 used full names.
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They posted their data as public so they could be found and identified anyway. Heatmap just speeds up the process by letting us know where to search.
Gave the map of the route to fake. Without that you'd need time to trace round buildings and training areas you see in satellite pics. Which is the kind of thing governments have the time to do (imagine mapmyride seeing an uptake in users in N Korea); I didn't.