Garmin Connect Down - And made me think...

[geocycle]

Must be a concern for users. I find my wahoo very reliable in terms of upload and the route has usually reached Strava and RwGPS before I’m out of the garage. I use both platforms for storing data to have some kind of backup.

 

[Teamfixed]

Still down now.

 

[gunja99]

I'm 99.9999% sure mine doesn't either
The concern about GPS is that is owned & operated effectively by the US Army, if Blowjo upsets Mr Orange they could turn off civilian use, this of course could be an urban myth.

Yeah if only we'd teamed up with a group of countries part of the same continent as a union and developed an alternative... Oh we did, then left cos fish and racism...

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Oh we did, then left cos fish and racism...

If only it was as simplistic as that, but anyway I believe there is a thread in the dark place if you want to weep about the unfairness of it, so it's not required here.

 

[Drago]

Must be a concern for users.

No, not at all. Aside from really not being that anal about my ride history, my devices still work just fine and talk quite happily to numerous different apps and services. It doesn't even register as the slightest ache in the testes. I can't see why [people are getting so het up.

 

[gunja99]

No, not at all. Aside from really not being that anal about my ride history, my devices still work just fine and talk quite happily to numerous different apps and services. It doesn't even register as the slightest ache in the testes. I can't see why [people are getting so het up.

Well there is a bucket load of personal information attached this this too health info etc. I'm personally not that bothered more frustrated but do understand concerns of bad 3td parties having data. Looks like this hacking group does t normally sell off the data but we will see.

 

[srw]

my Garmin head unit is virtually redundant at the moment, because it needs to connect to Strava via the garmin connect app

It still does everything it always did. The only difference is that you'll have to be slightly more patient than usual to look at the details on a computer or phone.

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/garmin-web-based-utilities-down-after-suspected-attack/

This implies that Garmin is prioritising recovery of its highly regulated air pilot services over the freebies we get. And the fact that things are moving there is probably positive for the rest of us.

 

[Drago]

Well there is a bucket load of personal information attached this this too health info etc. I'm personally not that bothered more frustrated but do understand concerns of bad 3td parties having data. Looks like this hacking group does t normally sell off the data but we will see.

Well, if the hackers find my nuremburgs of interest to them, then good luck.

 

[dodgy]

I think most people are at stage one of not caring much at all, apart from the slight inconvenience of not having access to their historic data. I think the tone will change if the attackers managed to exfil a load of data and put it on a browsable map searchable by email address and / or location.

 

[Drago]

If anyone wants the disposable email address I created purely to use Garmin, or the made up name I used, then good luck to them. Put a map up, couldn't care less - it tells the observer that Dirk McSporran went for a ride, and is of zip use to anyone.

I've had almost 2 days and have yet to work up a shiver.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Watch it doesn’t attack your device when you connect it to Garmin infected servers. Your Garmin will be navigating to KFC every ride and other weird shoot.

 

[dodgy]

If anyone wants the disposable email address I created purely to use Garmin, or the made up name I used, then good luck to them. Put a map up, couldn't care less - it tells the observer that Dirk McSporran went for a ride, and is of zip use to anyone.

I've had almost 2 days and have yet to work up a shiver.

This isn’t about just you. There will be lots of people in a different situation.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Am i right in thinking that the only way i can upload my ride to Strava at the moment is to use my phone app to record it, and that my Garmin head unit is virtually redundant at the moment, because it needs to connect to Strava via the garmin connect app

No you don't? do you have a PC? then surely you can directly upload to Strava after each ride, I can with mt 800, or at least I could if I could ride

 

[Hacienda71]

Yes you just upload from your Garmin device to Strava etc. direct using a USB cable. Always did this with my 200 and 705. Uploaded from my 520 yesterday exactly the same, you just don't have the convenience of an auto Bluetooth upload via garminconnect.

 

[Johnno260]

If anyone wants the disposable email address I created purely to use Garmin, or the made up name I used, then good luck to them. Put a map up, couldn't care less - it tells the observer that Dirk McSporran went for a ride, and is of zip use to anyone.

I've had almost 2 days and have yet to work up a shiver.

Its a good piece of advice, this is what I do for mobile games, I have a false Facebook account with trash email address with squat useful information on it.