Re: Hacking Pictures?

[Jeff Stebelton <jeff.stebelton () gmail com>]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Steven Bonici <sbonici () ilaonline org> wrote:
> I was speaking to someone from DHS (not a tech) and he was telling me
> that there are applications that can "look" at a picture taken from a
> cell phone and can get the location of where the picture was taken.  Is
> this true?  If so, can someone provide more information?  If this can be
> done, people posting pictures from their cell phones to social sites
> should be aware of this...
>
> Thanks - Steven

It's called geo-tagging, and it's a real issue. There was a recent
case where a soldier in Afghanistan posted pictures he took from his
base camp and inadvertently gave away the coordinates, which was
classified. Twitter will do the same thing, give a location of where
you are tweeting from, but it can be turned off in both.


--
Jeff Stebelton, GCFW GCIA GCIH CEH ESSE

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