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Using the reflections as additional information is very interesting. However, I’m not that surprised that views from windows can be relatively easily located. A
by arrrg 13y ago
Using the reflections as additional information is very interesting. However, I’m not that surprised that views from windows can be relatively easily located. Andrew Sullivan has been running his View From Your Window contest for four years now and people have been guessing the locations of the photos with scary accuracy (as good as in the linked post).
Here is the archive: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/vfyw-contest/ http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/vfyw-contest/
Still, it’s probably more than 15 minutes work even in the best case scenario (and much, much longer in the worst case), can probably not be automated in any meaningful way (but that would be an interesting project, huh!) and is consequently only of interest to dedicated attackers, not general surveillance.
- abruzzi 12y agoAnd he doesn't even give a starting city or country. His readers have to narrow down the location using street signs, building types, car types, and other subtle hints. So if you don't want people to find you don't post pictures of where you are.
- saraid216 12y ago> So if you don't want people to find you don't post pictures of where you are. This cannot be said enough. It's definitely worth educating people to the kinds of things they're exposing when publishing things like vacation photos, but most people shouldn't have a need for that level of information security.