fitness apps

  • Evil Week: The Easiest Ways to Cheat at a Step-Counting Challenge

    Evil Week: The Easiest Ways to Cheat at a Step-Counting Challenge

    Welcome to Evil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks we’d usually refrain from recommending. Want to weasel your way into free drinks, play elaborate mind games, or, er, launder some money? We’ve got all the info you need to be successfully unsavory. A Fitbit or other step-counting challenge can be a…


  • Polar Fitness Data Reveals Military Secrets

    It’s been just over a year since Strava was found to be publishing data that could be used to discern the location of secret military bases. The Polar Flow app, used by owners of Polar fitness devices has been found to make the same sort of data publicly accessible. While this is a great way…