11:11 Photos from twitter "talking" in the hands of hackers | |
And it is not always what photography can "tell" would be nice to her owner. In general, it will be a long painful problem - carelessness of Internet users and leakage of personal information. The fact that a large number of new models are equipped with cellular function geotagging, and somehow very few people who understand the potential danger of this function. At yesterday's conference of hackers Next HOPE is one of the participants told me that he had analyzed more than 2.5 million photos, posted by users of service Twitter, and more than 65,000 of them were marked with coordinates. Like the man who buys a modern mobile, must realize that geotagging feature for and intended to show our current location. As it turned out, the majority of owners of mobile devices with this feature did not even think about the potential danger of leakage of personal information. How does it work? Yes, quite simply, when receiving the image cell gets the coordinates of your current location and adds this data to EXIF ??metadata snapshot. At the same time, we all know what kind of pictures posted by users of Twitter. Some hold on, do a very personal photographs, wishing to remain anonymous at the same time. Funny sounds, but the same with a hacker conference showed a snapshot of a man who is the anonymous user of Twitter. Snapshot can not be called a "family" or "respectable." In this case, the hacker was able to image data to determine the address, phone number and name of the man. As it turned out that even has a wife who is unlikely to be pleased like "creativity". In general, the carelessness and stupidity can argue forever, and the hacker did not at length on this topic. Instead, he introduced them to set up a resource ICanStalkU.com, which analyzes imagery from the main page of the resource twitpic.com. Next to the thumbnail image shows the nick, plus information about the current location of the user. Such a simple way shows how much more reckless people who are not even aware that their photos just scream "I'm in such a place." Service even convert the coordinates in the address, street and city names (if possible, of course). The basis of the service is clever script in Perl. Purpose of the site, according to its maker, "to scare users, make them think and make decisions - whether you need that anyone could find out where you are at the moment. After disabling geotagging so simple, but very few who do, even if fears of leakage of such information. It is clear that the method of determining the coordinates of the image metadata is not a novelty to most members of habrasoobschestva (if it ever was news). She just wanted to show an interesting service, and once again warn - smoking is bad beware! Here is the original source. | |
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