some ideas from Corona Virus "Stay at Home" order

Laura Brody laura.k.brody at gmail.com
Mon Mar 23 12:02:56 PDT 2020


The same people who think that anyone who knows more about computers than
they do can hack into the Pentagon in 30 seconds or less, write a virus
program and take down the entire Internet in an hour and said virus can
make computers burst into flames. Yeah, _those_ people.....

Laura Brody

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 2:57 PM Fairlight via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> The unwashed masses...those are the ones spreading COVID-19, right?  :)
>
> (Too soon???)
>
> m->
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 02:52:36PM -0400, Laura Brody thus spoke:
> >    As computer geeks, we have the technical skills to do that. The great
> >    unwashed masses don't even know that the GPS info in a photo exists.
> That
> >    is the difference.
> >    Laura Brody
> >    On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 2:40 PM Fairlight via Filepro-list
> >    <[1]filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> >
> >      I would fight that -so- hard.  That information is easily
> spoofable.
> >      That's like relying on non-PGP-signed emails as 'evidence'.  Prove
> it
> >      really went down that way, and wasn't forged.
> >
> >      You could download any image from FB or Twitter, re-encode it with
> >      different EXIF information, and provide 'evidence' of anything you
> like.
> >
> >      [2]https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3229130
> >
> >      See the post by 'apaflo' in that thread, specifically.
> >
> >      m->
> >
> >      On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 02:25:11PM -0400, Laura Brody via
> Filepro-list
> >      thus spoke:
> >      > I read an article that said that the police have used the GPS
> info in
> >      > photos to find people that have a social media account, but are
> >      "missing".
> >      > Teens that ran away, etc Once they  know where the photo was
> taken,
> >      they
> >      > have the state and county to start looking for that person. I
> guess
> >      that it
> >      > could also be used in a legal case. What if someone had video or
> >      pictures
> >      > that prove something, but when you extract the GPS info, turns out
> >      that the
> >      > event was several miles away from what the person claimed. Fraud
> and
> >      > perjury. And they are busted. I guess that there are other uses
> too, I
> >      just
> >      > can't think of any.
> >      >
> >      > Laura Brody
> >      >
> >      > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 1:43 PM Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list <
> >      > [3]filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> >      >
> >      > > On the topic of GPS coordinates: what use case can you think of
> for
> >      this?
> >      > > I've been aware of geotagging (an dother EXIF data) in photos
> and
> >      videos
> >      > > for years, and have written code to extract that data from the
> >      files, but
> >      > > have not come up with many use cases. Ideas?
> >      > >
> >      > > On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Richard D. Williams via Filepro-list wrote:
> >      > >
> >      > > > Sometimes I think of some neat things I've done over the
> years and
> >      just
> >      > > feel
> >      > > > like sharing.
> >      > > >
> >      > > > Here are a few: (linux OS)
> >      > > >
> >      > > > Merge PDFs into a single new PDF:
> >      > > > /usr/bin/gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> >      > > -sOutputFile=file_new.pdf
> >      > > > file1.pdf file2.pdf
> >      > > >
> >      > > > Extract Pages from a PDF:
> >      > > > i.e. page 1-4
> >      > > > /usr/bin/gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> -dFirstPage=1
> >      > > -dLastPage=4
> >      > > > -sOutputFile=file_new.pdf file1.pdf
> >      > > >
> >      > > > Extract Pages from page # to end:
> >      > > > /usr/bin/gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> -dFirstPage=2
> >      > > > -sOutputFile=file_new.pdf file1.pdf
> >      > > >
> >      > > > Get the numbers of pages in a PDF:
> >      > > > /usr/bin/pdfinfo file1.pdf | grep "Pages:" | sed
> s/"Pages:"//g |
> >      sed s/"
> >      > > "//g
> >      > > > i.e.
> >      > > > 8
> >      > > >
> >      > > > Get the Lat/Long from a JPG image:
> >      > > > exiftool -n -gpslatitude -gpslongitude file2.JPG
> >      > > > i.e.
> >      > > > GPS Latitude                    : 31.4998652777778
> >      > > > GPS Longitude                   : -100.448014444444
> >      > > >
> >      > > > I hope someone finds this useful.
> >      > > >
> >      > > > Be safe out there,
> >      > > >
> >      > > > Richard D. Williams
> >      > > >
> >      > > >
> >      > > >
> >      > > >
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