https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/10bf1719-8441-4e35-8b5c-7c74fc952ccc This tutorial is part 29 of the OSINT At Home series: practical case studies you can follow right from your laptop covering Open Source Investigations and Open Source Intelligence techniques. In this episode I show you how investigators use Strava, the fitness app with over 180 million users, to uncover locations that were never meant to be public. We work through three techniques for finding facilities, identifying the people who train inside them, and looking through profiles. Then five settings to lock down your own account so none of it works on you. The data on Strava is public. What it reveals often is not. That gap is the whole point: a single public running route can expose a military base, a patrol pattern, a home address, or the real-time position of an aircraft carrier. WHY THIS MATTERS People in sensitive jobs and/or locations share their workouts every day. Sometimes it's a soldier on a base, sometimes a bodyguard, sometimes a cyclist whose route starts at their front door. If you do research, journalism, or investigations, knowing how to read this data and how to verify it saves hours and keeps you off random screenshots. And if you're on the other side of it, the same knowledge tells you exactly which settings to change. A NOTE ON THE EXAMPLES The cases in this video, the French aircraft carrier, the UK service personnel, and the Swedish Prime Minister's security detail, are all drawn from published journalism. They are used purely to teach the techniques. They do not reveal any investigation I am currently working on. A NOTE ON ACCESS Many of Strava's most useful research features have been progressively paywalled. The techniques here focus on what is available for free, with workarounds where tools have moved behind a subscription. Third-party tools such as Doogal can change availability without notice, so check before you rely on them. TOOLS USED Strava global heatmap: https://www.strava.com/heatmap Doogal segment interface: https://www.doogal.co.uk/SegmentExplorer Google Earth Pro: https://www.google.com/earth CHAPTERS 01:57 How to use Strava's Heatmap to find locations 05:50 How to look up Strava's Segments to find out who did what 09:07 Looking at Strava profiles 10:03 Strava's privacy settings to stop anyone finding you FOLLOW ALONG Open the global heatmap, navigate to a place you know, and switch between sport types. Look for activity where it shouldn't be, then cross-reference it against satellite imagery in Google Earth or Copernicus Browser. After that, go and run the five settings on your own account. RESOURCES https://press.strava.com/articles/in-a-world-of-digital-oversharing-strava-is-reminding-users-that-some https://x.com/Nrg8000/status/957318498102865920 https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2018/01/29/strava-interpretation-guide/ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/stravaleaks/ https://www.instagram.com/coderunnerguy/p/C5sm_P_t0X2/ https://inews.co.uk/news/hundreds-uk-soldiers-exposed-military-bases-strava-workouts-4314089?srsltid=AfmBOoogyO24nowndO8VxdrRqTAbA9Z1a5DPfaXEdroFmiF0kxDfwF-6 ETHICS NOTE These methods are for investigating public infrastructure and public-interest content using public data. Don't use them to locate or target private individuals, harass anyone, or expose personal data. Geolocate infrastructure, not victims. A single activity rarely tells the full story, so verify across sources before you draw conclusions. WATCH NEXT How To Map Anything With Open Data (OSINT At Home #10): https://youtu.be/bJkV3l5Haq0?si=nNRhnkYrGo5i7ghX Identify A Location From A Photo (OSINT At Home #4): https://youtu.be/RoqWbpZUOSo?si=QnTlYxvlXngggwKi Starting An Investigation With Image Reverse Search (OSINT At Home #1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW96515QG6Y&t=3s The OSINT At Home series is for anyone looking to find digital breadcrumbs and pick up the methods of open source intelligence (OSINT), digital investigations, and good old plain research. No matter who you are, or where you are in the world, you can follow these tutorials from home with publicly available information to answer questions such as who, what, where and when. If you enjoyed this video, don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell for more OSINT tutorials! #Strava #OSINT #DigitalPrivacy #Geolocation #Investigations #OpenSourceIntelligence #OpenSourceInvestigations #OSINTTechniques #OSINTTutorial Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:02:21 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://stream.echo6.co https://stream.echo6.co/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/10bf1719-8441-4e35-8b5c-7c74fc952ccc All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://stream.echo6.co/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.