Jibbering.com Website Review

jibbering.com contains the various bits of me, jim ley, that i expose to the web, if you're just looking to email me, [email protected] is previously had some pages which used the strava api to do useful things for me, the one i used most was seeing who rode climbs together, it simply used the api to see everyone who rode a segment and then tracked their start times so you could see who was riding with who. it was also really useful to see changes in time between groups in a race. ie the break started a lap 2 minutes ahead and then strava killed their previous api though, and despite an initial promise from them for me to have access to their new api if i agreed to remove their embarrasing gpx export service which revealed the private zones of peoples rides, i never got access, they just stopped emailing. (the privacy flaw was in their export, not in anything i did…). i’m stuck here now without access to the useful features, so i’ve started looking for a replacement. i don’t have access to their new apis, and in fact i don’t think i’d bother investing the time in them anyway, once bitten… but i started looking at the services they use to populate the pages themselves. an immediate thing hits me, their page api allows access to private activities. also completely ignores the privacy zones you have configured when exporting a private ride. a public version the same as the last run activities actually provide more risk to revealing your location than public ones. private rides are just security through obscurity, and the id’s aren’t even that obscure, don’t give strava data that you actually unless you do some laps inside your zone or something similar to obfuscate it. altitude is also provided for the points within the zone, so that may reveal more for those of you who don’t live in flat lands. for not supporting old api’s or for providing access to the new api is lack of time. i guess i can now believe this, as they don’t even