RowdyRebel Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Story on Fox News just now about the dangers of geotagging pictures taken with cell phones and posted online. Guy who runs this website was on there talking about how cell phones tag any picture you take with the GPS coordinates of where you took the picture...so if you take a cell phone pic inside your house...say of that new big screen TV you just bought....and proceed to post it online, they know what you have. Then, say you post a pic 1/2 way across the country because it is just something you have to see to believe and you want to share it with the world....that thief now knows you ain't home and it's a good time to go big screen TV shopping at your house.They showed a reporterette snap a picture and post it to her twitter page. Guy who ran the website pulled up to where she was not 15 minutes later....said he had the coordinates within a minute of the post, just took him 15 minutes to get there. Careful with them cell phone pics....they showed you can turn off the geotagging feature. Seems a dumb thing for the phone to do in the first place, though. Everybody gripes about invasions to their privacy...then they go posting all their personal info on this here interweb. Pretty dumb, if you ask me. Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/17676-geotagging-of-photos/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatcity Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Story on Fox News just now about the dangers of geotagging pictures taken with cell phones and posted online. Guy who runs this website was on there talking about how cell phones tag any picture you take with the GPS coordinates of where you took the picture...so if you take a cell phone pic inside your house...say of that new big screen TV you just bought....and proceed to post it online, they know what you have. Then, say you post a pic 1/2 way across the country because it is just something you have to see to believe and you want to share it with the world....that thief now knows you ain't home and it's a good time to go big screen TV shopping at your house.They showed a reporterette snap a picture and post it to her twitter page. Guy who ran the website pulled up to where she was not 15 minutes later....said he had the coordinates within a minute of the post, just took him 15 minutes to get there. Careful with them cell phone pics....they showed you can turn off the geotagging feature. Seems a dumb thing for the phone to do in the first place, though. Everybody gripes about invasions to their privacy...then they go posting all their personal info on this here interweb. Pretty dumb, if you ask me.No pics of the "reporterette"? Quote Success is only a stones throw away.................................................................for a Palestinian Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/17676-geotagging-of-photos/#findComment-71452 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyRebel Posted January 23, 2011 Author Share Posted January 23, 2011 No pics of the "reporterette"?Hang on....here's a news article on it...http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/19/geotagging-risks-dangers-twitter/ Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/17676-geotagging-of-photos/#findComment-71453 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyRebel Posted January 23, 2011 Author Share Posted January 23, 2011 not the report I watched....http://video.foxnews.com/v/4502329/are-your-digital-photos-putting-you-in-danger....still looking....... Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/17676-geotagging-of-photos/#findComment-71454 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyRebel Posted January 23, 2011 Author Share Posted January 23, 2011 STILL not the report I watched.....but the reporterette might be the same. She wrote that article up yonder a few posts back....http://video.foxnews.com/v/4502176/dangers-of-geotagging Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/17676-geotagging-of-photos/#findComment-71455 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyRebel Posted January 23, 2011 Author Share Posted January 23, 2011 Here we go....this is the one I watched. Seems it's been a story they've been covering for a while.http://video.foxnews.com/v/4507207/cell-phone-pictures-come-with-hidden-dangerYup...it was Molly Line. Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/17676-geotagging-of-photos/#findComment-71456 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 That's the best thing about Fox News-they got all hot babes.But back to the story-yeah,a cell phone can get you in all sorts of trouble. Long story short-A speaker at one of our safety meetings told us about a driver that was involved in an accident and of course he was sued,they subpoenaed (or however you spell it) his cell phone records and proved he had falsified his logs,so he was guilty because he shouldn't have been where he was in the first place. I could be in Minnesoter,call Rob to chat,but if my logbook says i'm in Hawawii and they go back and see the cell tower was in International Falls at that particular time,i'm screwed.I've got my phone set where the gps is off except when you dial 911, but they can still tell what tower your signal was bouncing off of anytime you make a call. Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/17676-geotagging-of-photos/#findComment-71545 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhasler Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 That's the best thing about Fox News-they got all hot babes.But back to the story-yeah,a cell phone can get you in all sorts of trouble. Long story short-A speaker at one of our safety meetings told us about a driver that was involved in an accident and of course he was sued,they subpoenaed (or however you spell it) his cell phone records and proved he had falsified his logs,so he was guilty because he shouldn't have been where he was in the first place. I could be in Minnesoter,call Rob to chat,but if my logbook says i'm in Hawawii and they go back and see the cell tower was in International Falls at that particular time,i'm screwed.What roads do you drive to get to Hawaii? Quote "Mebbe I'm too ugly and stupid to give up!" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/17676-geotagging-of-photos/#findComment-71550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 What roads do you drive to get to Hawaii?I put the long snorkel on and drive across the bottom of the ocean. Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/17676-geotagging-of-photos/#findComment-71552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vision386 Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Ya just gotta' faith! head west outta' frisco,put er' in the big hole and mash on it!......Heres a shot of Tom headed west just last summer........... Quote Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/17676-geotagging-of-photos/#findComment-71557 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambi80 Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Try this...•Go to Google Maps and click on 'Get Directions' •Write USA as your start point •Write Japan as your destination •Go to the 31st point on your route •When you stop laughing, pass this along so others can laugh at it too...•I thought the 32 direction was pretty good too! Quote Ever wonder how a blind person knows when to stop wiping? Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/17676-geotagging-of-photos/#findComment-71562 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambi80 Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 And to the original post, there was a news story a while back about how some guy was trolling facespace or mybook etc...ended up robbing a bunch of houses while people were all on vacation and he did this because EVERY ONE of those people had it on there that they'd be gone for x-amount of time, all in the same week. Had I been the judge in those cases, I'd have to call the rob-ees a buncha dumbasses. Quote Ever wonder how a blind person knows when to stop wiping? Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/17676-geotagging-of-photos/#findComment-71563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vision386 Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 LMFAO!....i tried it! kayak huh? i just wonder if the TOKYO tollroad takes EZ-PASS!........... Quote Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/17676-geotagging-of-photos/#findComment-71567 Share on other sites More sharing options...
randyp Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 I wish my wife could geotag her dern car keys,,,randyp Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/17676-geotagging-of-photos/#findComment-71586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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