Posted on Jan 4, 2015
Those pictures I posted on my deployment are harmless!
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Or are they? Geotagging is a HUGE security issues.
Here is a recently ISIS fighter undone by geotagging.
http://time.com/3651559/new-zealand-isis-twitter/
Going back 2 years, the founder of McAfee Software was found as a fugitive suspect for murder by a reporters geotagging.
http://gcn.com/blogs/pulse/2012/12/fugitive-mcafee-exposed-by-basic-geotagging.aspx
Here is a recently ISIS fighter undone by geotagging.
http://time.com/3651559/new-zealand-isis-twitter/
Going back 2 years, the founder of McAfee Software was found as a fugitive suspect for murder by a reporters geotagging.
http://gcn.com/blogs/pulse/2012/12/fugitive-mcafee-exposed-by-basic-geotagging.aspx
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TSgt Joshua Copeland
Not so much twitter directly, but by photos you post on twitter. Pictures taken with your cell phone can have geo tagging data in them if you don't specifically turn it off. Most High end cameras and many "point and shoot" cameras also have the built in geo tagging.
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google maps if left on will track your movements you should let your soldiers know this,and that question twitter,and facebook ask.Can we have your location and info.Becareful.
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