Ideally, for you often upload photos on the internet, especially Twitter and Facebook began to be carefully and not careless. Not only the risk of these photos circulated an utilized those irresponsible but your crime will also be lurking.
Because ,through these photographs, the criminals can know the existence of the virtual world location of the upload. Photographs taken from a camera phone and then instantly shared on Twitter, not only the image information alone, but could not save the information known to the upload.
The next HOPE hacker conference in New York, a security expert demonstrated how it scans approximately 2.5 million images, spread the link on Twitter. Of that amount, he was able to mention the location coordinates ( latitude and longitude ) approximately 65000 photographs, and that's without owner of the photo.
" This shows that have failed to safeguard the privacy, " said security expert Ben Jackson of Mayhemic Labs as reported by Cnet, Saturday ( 17 / 07 / 2010 ).
The process of scanning to determine the coordinates of the position, made possible when the photo was taken from the phone. The current generation of mobile phone features geotagging photos. Geotagging is a process of geographical identification metadata in a media such as video, photographs, websites, the metadata will have coordinate information.
Hackers are able to inject into the EXIF metadata taken from photo cameras to identify the location. Actually, Twitter and other social networks, have service to share locations but most users rarely activate.
source : okezone.com
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