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How People Broadcast Their Locations Without Meaning To
wjousts writes "Smartphones include geotagging features that many people aren't aware of, MIT's Technology Review reports. And it's not just in the obvious places: 'For example, by looking at the location metadata stored with pictures posted through one man's anonymous Twitter account, the researchers were able to pinpoint his likely home address. From there, by cross-referencing this location with city records, they found his name. Using that information, the researchers went on to find his place of work, his wife's name, and information about his children.'"
I might as well also point out that 4chan strips the EXIF data from uploaded images for exactly this reason.
mogrify -strip *.jpg will do!
True, although Facebook has always stripped EXIF. 4chan didn't use to strip EXIF.
Facebook also compresses the images all to shit, too, although they recently made it possible to let people download a higher-quality version.
You do realize 4chan's Alexa Traffic Rank is 632, right? Compare this to Slashdot, which is ranked 1296. 4chan isn't exactly the well-kept secret some people want to think of it as.