Re: Hacking Pictures?

[Stephen <stephen () greyhat-security com>]

Hi Steven, from what I know, there would be only two ways to do this.
One, which is the most simple, and the majority of people could easily
do it, is to look at the metadata from the photo, and extract the GPS
co-ordinates from it (as most phones and some camera's now record this
information into the picture by default). Alternatively, geolocation by
identifying common landmarks would theoretically be possible, but need
large clusters of supercomputers with a heck of a lot of info (I would
say, anyway). There may be other ways, but that's what I'm aware of. Thanks,

-Stephen

On 22/01/2011 3:12 AM, Steven Bonici 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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