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Sounds like John may have been a step ahead. (He claims to have editted the EXIF data in an apology to VICE mag.) http://www.whoismcafee.com/another-apology/ h
by drivebyacct2 14y ago
Sounds like John may have been a step ahead. (He claims to have editted the EXIF data in an apology to VICE mag.)
http://www.whoismcafee.com/another-apology/ http://www.whoismcafee.com/another-apology/
- aes256 14y agoCalling shenanigans on this one. McAffee is almost certainly bluffing.
- sliverstorm 14y agoIt does kind of seem like, if it was a ruse, he wouldn't want to tell anyone that it was.
- vacri 14y agoIt could also be a double-bluff - by looking clumsy, he sends attention to this place where he's not.
- caycep 14y agoYou fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia"
- contingencies 14y agoRisk2210: or the moon. Nuke commander!
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- jmcgough 14y agoThis. He acts incredibly paranoid - a lot of what he puts online is misinformation to protect himself. When he fled the country he made sure to write blog posts and report to others that he'd lost all of his money (since there's still a wrongful death suit with his name on it). I'm sure he freaked out when the metadata was uncovered - probably fled Guatemala immediately.
- kwestin 14y agoYeah I don't think that is true, why then did Vice.com pull the photo so fast after it was uncovered? Why not strip out the EXIF data altogether in the first place...or simply disable geo tagging on the phone. Why would he then even tell people he manipulated it...doesn't make sense.
- morsch 14y agoHe says I, for my own safety, manipulated the xif data on the image taken from my cellphone, and created a fake emrgency so that the urgency of movement led, as I knew it would, to the hasty posting on their website. Spelling mistakes aside, what does that even mean? The first part I can parse; but what fake emergency? What urgency of movement? Is he referring back to the posts about his being caught? And he manipulated the EXIF to trick Vice to make them blog about it more rapidly?
- sil3ntmac 14y agoPerhaps his goal was to bring attention to the EXIF issue. Not enough people realize that their location is transparently embedded in the photos they take. This should be an opt-in feature that the user has to work for to enable. It should never be an option that I might accept by hitting "OK" to many times.
- kwestin 14y agoI actually count on it http://www.gadgettrak.com/blog/2011/08/24/photographer-recovers-9k-stolen-camera-equipment-thanks-to-gadgettrak/ http://www.gadgettrak.com/blog/2011/08/24/photographer-recov...
- jlgreco 14y agoSeems like an odd crusade to go on. Worthy certainly, but I would be surprised if he were taking the time to go on such crusades at a time like this. My guess is he just fucked up. Paranoid != Smart/careful.
- aes256 14y agoI think McAffee means to claim the photo was taken and the EXIF data was manipulated on his iPhone, then he created a 'fake emergency' and told the Vice reporters they would have to move urgently so that they would post the photo online immediately. Obvious question: Who is more likely to be waving an iPhone around; the extremely paranoid McAffee who has been on the run for weeks, presumably without a stable source of electricity, or the Vice reporters who have just been flown in, presumably from London?
- glomph 14y agoWhatever happened, I am disappointed they are going to part ways. I think that vice reporting on his life would have been very interesting.
- anthonyb 14y agokwestin, you've been hellbanned - no idea why, looks like a mistake to me.