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Extracting metadata from images
From the course: Deep Dive into Open-Source Intelligence
Extracting metadata from images
- [Instructor] Recently, while shopping for a used car, I laughed at the seller on Craigslist who scribbled out the street sign appearing in the photo. I wasn't laughing at the seller's lack of artistic capability. They made the effort to cross out the street name, but they left the image metadata showing their exact location. Most modern cameras, including the one on your smartphone, use something called EXIF formatting to store information on photos taken by the camera. When examining EXIF data, you'll typically see shutter speed, exposure compensation, timestamp and a lot of other technical information about how the picture was taken. When the camera is equipped with GPS, like the one on your smartphone, you'll also sometimes find incredibly accurate latitude and longitude information. The first time I heard about EXIF data, I was in my hotel room doing some late-night research after speaking at a security…
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