Using jpeg metatags to locate crooks
Nora at Extra!Extra! (get a subscription, it's great) found this fascinating piece at Metafilter:
"To tell the truth ... I'm sorta surprised they haven't caught me yet"
"The Washington Post ran an interesting interview with a botmaster, a young man who made serveral [sic] thousands of dollars a month installing XXX spyware on machines that he controlled. He installed the software on the machines of people he did not know by hacking into them remotely. The lenghty [sic] article included a partial photo of the botmaster along with vauge [sic] descriptions of the small midwestern town where the man lives, and was published with the understanding that the man's identity would be kept secret. Someone should have told that to the person that manages photos at the Washington Post. An estute [sic] reader over at Slashdot was able to locate some extra information stored in the picture's metadata including the photographer and the location the picture was taken, Roland, Oklahoma, a town of less than 3000 people. Whoops."
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"To tell the truth ... I'm sorta surprised they haven't caught me yet"
"The Washington Post ran an interesting interview with a botmaster, a young man who made serveral [sic] thousands of dollars a month installing XXX spyware on machines that he controlled. He installed the software on the machines of people he did not know by hacking into them remotely. The lenghty [sic] article included a partial photo of the botmaster along with vauge [sic] descriptions of the small midwestern town where the man lives, and was published with the understanding that the man's identity would be kept secret. Someone should have told that to the person that manages photos at the Washington Post. An estute [sic] reader over at Slashdot was able to locate some extra information stored in the picture's metadata including the photographer and the location the picture was taken, Roland, Oklahoma, a town of less than 3000 people. Whoops."
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