Botmaster: 0x80 outed by Washington Post photo Metadata

[Gary Warner <gar () askgar com>]

Have you seen this already?

This is a really funny leak, that reads more like a complicated 
GeoCaching clue . . .

There was a great article where Brian Krebs interviewed the hacker 0x80, 
who claims to be quite a bot-herder.  ( 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/14/AR2006021401342.html 
)

The photo that ran with the article (since removed), and some bright 
Slash-Dotters listed the metadata for the photo that says it was taken 
in Roland Oklahoma . . . a town of less than 3,000 people.

Another slash-dotter takes the data from the article that there was a 
gas station, a strip club, and a used car lot near the kid's home, and 
uses Google Maps to identify the likely places of business in Roland 
Oklahoma.

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=177830&cid=14751042

The photo is shown here:

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2006/02/19/the_perils_of_metadata

So, we need a 21 year old Marlboro smoker in a town of 3,000 that claims 
to drop $800 a night in the VIP room of the strip club.  I'm thinking 
there are cops at the Cheyenne Gentlemen's Club interviewing strippers 
there as we speak.

_-_
gar




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