Re: Hacking Pictures?

[Brendan Coles <bcoles () gmail com>]

Hi Steven,

This is true. It's also an old, well known issue.

The device used to take the photo is sometimes stored in the meta data
in addition to the latitude and longitude.

Check out the following resources.

ExifTool by Phil Harvey :
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

Jeffrey's Exif viewer [ Online Tool ] :
http://regex.info/exif.cgi

Firefox Plugin :
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/3905


Regards,

Brendan Coles
http://itsecuritysolutions.org/


On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:42 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
>
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