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I once posted a photo to Twitter, and some guy looked up the GPS coordinates in the metadata and accosted me at the Starbucks where I was working. Turns out he

by dcurtis 17y ago

I once posted a photo to Twitter, and some guy looked up the GPS coordinates in the metadata and accosted me at the Starbucks where I was working. Turns out he was angry because I posted a tweet three weeks earlier about hating eBay. There are some crazy people out there, for sure.

ryanwaggoner 17y ago
If you were working at Starbucks since Twitter launched, you've come a long way in a short period of time. * I'm assuming, of course, that you're no longer working there :)
- rcoder 17y ago
  I for one took "working at Starbucks" to mean "sitting at Starbucks, working on my laptop."
- dcurtis 17y ago
  I was working in the Starbucks, on my laptop.
  - ryanwaggoner 17y ago
    Ah! My bad :)
  - david927 17y ago
    Yeah, right.
maxklein 17y ago
How did he open? Did he say: "Hey Dustin" or did he say "Are you Dustin?" What were his first words?
- dcurtis 17y ago
  The photo I posted showed where I was sitting. He walked over, explained that he was extremely upset with my tweet about eBay, because his wife works there, and told me to be careful about what I say in public. Then he took a deep breath, I assume to calm himself down, told me how he found me, said he was unfollowing me on Twitter. Then he left.
  - akirk 17y ago
    utterly creepy.
  - maxklein 17y ago
    It's the unfollowing that hurt, isn't it?
  - jfornear 17y ago
    That's the most awesome unfollow ever.
    - david927 17y ago
      Old school
DanBlake 17y ago
Thats scary. Wow. Any more to the story? Intrigued by what you said and why this guy freaked out over it. Details?
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pavel_lishin 17y ago
Seems like it might not be a bad idea for services like Twitpic, etc., to strip certain EXIF data from photographs.
tpyo 17y ago
Does that mean it happens often enough for us to worry about it?
prawn 17y ago
I haven't quite had the location-by-metadata gem, but I do get people tracking me down at public events or finding out my business number and calling to harass me with some insane ramblings, or emailing me based on some very confused interpretation of what one of my sites does.

by dcurtis 17y ago

ryanwaggoner 17y ago

If you were working at Starbucks since Twitter launched, you've come a long way in a short period of time. * I'm assuming, of course, that you're no longer working there :)

rcoder 17y ago
I for one took "working at Starbucks" to mean "sitting at Starbucks, working on my laptop."
dcurtis 17y ago
I was working in the Starbucks, on my laptop.
- ryanwaggoner 17y ago
  Ah! My bad :)
- david927 17y ago
  Yeah, right.

maxklein 17y ago

How did he open? Did he say: "Hey Dustin" or did he say "Are you Dustin?" What were his first words?

dcurtis 17y ago
The photo I posted showed where I was sitting. He walked over, explained that he was extremely upset with my tweet about eBay, because his wife works there, and told me to be careful about what I say in public. Then he took a deep breath, I assume to calm himself down, told me how he found me, said he was unfollowing me on Twitter. Then he left.
- akirk 17y ago
  utterly creepy.
- maxklein 17y ago
  It's the unfollowing that hurt, isn't it?
- jfornear 17y ago
  That's the most awesome unfollow ever.
  - david927 17y ago
    Old school

DanBlake 17y ago

Thats scary. Wow. Any more to the story? Intrigued by what you said and why this guy freaked out over it. Details?

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pavel_lishin 17y ago

Seems like it might not be a bad idea for services like Twitpic, etc., to strip certain EXIF data from photographs.

tpyo 17y ago

Does that mean it happens often enough for us to worry about it?

prawn 17y ago

I haven't quite had the location-by-metadata gem, but I do get people tracking me down at public events or finding out my business number and calling to harass me with some insane ramblings, or emailing me based on some very confused interpretation of what one of my sites does.