Bike thieves looking for victims through a societal networks

English county of Humberside Police said that cases of thefts of expensive bicycles, made with the help of information obtained through the site, to track the location of your bike. Such resources include application Strava, Map My Ride and popular social networks.





Bike shop owners report that increasingly turn to them the victims of thieves who claim that the above site has intruders to their expensive bikes.

How to deal with this problem? What the experts say? First of all, you must keep the security settings enabled mobile applications. In addition, their pages on social networks such as Facebook, better to refrain from publishing photos of your favorite bike worth up to several thousand pounds. After all, a simple name search in Strava easily open the attacker, where your trip ends, ie your actual address. If we consider in this case that many owners of expensive bikes prefer to keep them in a bad tamper-resistant sheds, and even spare money for a good bike lock, it becomes clear that the thief just need to choose the best time to steal.

For example in Annex Strava you can choose settings which define the private area in a radius from your home. This will allow you to conceal your real address from thieves, since the application will mask your further route as soon as you move into this area.




Source: geektimes.ru/company/velomesto/blog/245038/