Do you belive this ? (1 Viewer)

Users who are viewing this thread

wino

DILLIGAF
Do you belive this ?

Just got this in the mail what are the chances of it being true ?

Before you proudly go posting photos of your Ming vase online, you should be aware that computer-savvy burglars can likely use that photo to find out where you live. The same goes for photos or videos of your kids, yourself, or anything else that you don’t want strangers knowing how to locate. The practice of tracking people via their posted images is an example of “cybercasing”, and is possible because many digital cameras and smart phones, including the iPhone, automatically geotag their images by embedding the longitude and latitude at which they were taken. Even when uploaded to a website, the images still retain this information. By plugging the coordinates into a service like Google Street View, getting an address or an identifying landmark is entirely possible.
This disturbing fact was recently announced in a report published by the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI). Researchers Gerald Friedland and Robin Sommer wrote that they successfully obtained the home addresses of people who had posted photos in ads on Craigslist, despite those people having opted to keep their addresses hidden in their postings.


http://www.gizmag.com/online-predat...aign=1237ddbd8d-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email
 

Attachments

  • cybercasing.JPG
    cybercasing.JPG
    24.9 KB · Views: 46

wino

DILLIGAF
Hmm interesting but it seems like a lot of fucking a round to steal something, then again depends what ya stealing dont it.
 
Back
Top