justusnak
Almost Self-Reliant
My FIL sent this link to me....if you post pics...which we all do...check this out!!!
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=7621105
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=7621105
Be carefull....nothing is safe anymore!
- Thread starter justusnak
- Start date
miss_thenorth
Frugal Homesteader
CAn we have the coles version? some of us have slow internet and can't watch or don;'t have time for a video clip to load 
- Thread starter
- #3
justusnak
Almost Self-Reliant
Aparently there is a computer hardware out now...if you post pictures, Craigslist, E Bay, im sure even here.....that this hardware can pinpoint where the picture was taken, to within 15 ft!!!!! A woman took a picture of her 2 little girls wearing new shoes. Now, the pic was just from the knees down...in a bedroom...all you saw was the feet, carpet, and you could tell there was a bed behind them. They was able to use this hardware....and find that she lived in california...AND, they pinpointed her address!!!! Its scary how advanced this all is.miss_thenorth said:CAn we have the coles version? some of us have slow internet and can't watch or don;'t have time for a video clip to load
patandchickens
Crazy Cat Lady
Uh, does that not sound just a leeeeetle implausible if you think about it.
(Unless some cameras now encode GPS data with pics, which I suppose is possible, but that is a *whole* different thing)
Pat
FarmerChick
Super Self-Sufficient
- Joined
- Jul 21, 2008
- Messages
- 11,417
- Reaction score
- 14
- Points
- 248
yea info must be missing cause no way you can get an address from 2 pairs of shoes in a bedroom.
ohiofarmgirl
Sipping Bacon Martinis
- Joined
- Aug 18, 2009
- Messages
- 5,488
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 189
once again, insanely glad i have a stone age phone from the dollar store.
i noticed they said something about facebook letting you "connect" with folks? i'm gonna see what i can find out about that also.
here's my "wow technology NOT helping" story
someone i know is having an affair. (no i dont support this) they have been communicating with the "friend" in question via facebook. not very subtly - for a while they were others only "friends".... thinking it was safer than email.
so.... of course the spouse of the "friend" was looking around...and was able to determine the offender (the person i know) because they were "tagged" in a group picture from on someone else's page. the pic told the whole story, if you know what i mean.
there was a lot of fancy talking to explain that one.
a good lesson to be careful what you post...and be careful what other people post... and to keep your pants on and not have an affair for heavens sakes!
i noticed they said something about facebook letting you "connect" with folks? i'm gonna see what i can find out about that also.
here's my "wow technology NOT helping" story
someone i know is having an affair. (no i dont support this) they have been communicating with the "friend" in question via facebook. not very subtly - for a while they were others only "friends".... thinking it was safer than email.
so.... of course the spouse of the "friend" was looking around...and was able to determine the offender (the person i know) because they were "tagged" in a group picture from on someone else's page. the pic told the whole story, if you know what i mean.
there was a lot of fancy talking to explain that one.
a good lesson to be careful what you post...and be careful what other people post... and to keep your pants on and not have an affair for heavens sakes!
ohiofarmgirl
Sipping Bacon Martinis
- Joined
- Aug 18, 2009
- Messages
- 5,488
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 189
nope its real. if you take a pic from your gps enabled phone it imbeds the lat and longitude. i'm sure there is a way to turn it off.FarmerChick said:
FarmerChick
Super Self-Sufficient
- Joined
- Jul 21, 2008
- Messages
- 11,417
- Reaction score
- 14
- Points
- 248
ah, ok that must be the missing info I was wondering about
lol
lol
patandchickens
Crazy Cat Lady
Well there ya go then, it *is* b/c gps coordinates are embedded in some pics.... but, I mean, duh, what would you then EXPECT using something like that 
IMHO it is not so much as "nothing is safe anymore" as "people tend not to think about what they are doing".
Pat
IMHO it is not so much as "nothing is safe anymore" as "people tend not to think about what they are doing".
Pat
I heard they were starting to make phones that transfer data into your brain when you talk on them. It's like having a chip embedded. That way they can track where you are all the time. It's a homeland security thing.
Yeah, I could understand where a phone embedding the coordinates would be very useful for documentation purposes. It's funny how much stuff shows like CSI make people think that science can do. I wonder how accurate that GPS on the phone is. As in within feet and inches.
As an unrelated but sort of related question. Does anyone know if a company can monitor one of their vehicles using a Garmin or TomTom. In other words check up on their employees driving habits and the routes they are taking.
Yeah, I could understand where a phone embedding the coordinates would be very useful for documentation purposes. It's funny how much stuff shows like CSI make people think that science can do. I wonder how accurate that GPS on the phone is. As in within feet and inches.
As an unrelated but sort of related question. Does anyone know if a company can monitor one of their vehicles using a Garmin or TomTom. In other words check up on their employees driving habits and the routes they are taking.
