some ideas from Corona Virus "Stay at Home" order
Fairlight
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Mon Mar 23 12:24:49 PDT 2020
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 03:02:56PM -0400, Laura Brody thus spoke:
> 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
> <[1]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:
> >Â Â As computer geeks, we have the technical skills to do that. The
> great
> >Â Â unwashed masses don't even know that the GPS info in a photo
> exists. That
> >Â Â is the difference.
> >Â Â Laura Brody
> >Â Â On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 2:40 PM Fairlight via Filepro-list
> >Â Â <[1][2]filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> >
> >Â Â Â I would fight that -so- hard.Ã*Â That information is easily
> spoofable.
> >Â Â Â That's like relying on non-PGP-signed emails as
> 'evidence'.Ã*Â Prove it
> >Â Â Â really went down that way, and wasn't forged.
> >
> >Â Â Â You could download any image from FB or Twitter, re-encode it
> with
> >Â Â Â different EXIF information, and provide 'evidence' of anything
> you like.
> >
> >Â Â Â [2][3]https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3229130
> >
> >Â Â Â See the post by 'apaflo' in that thread, specifically.
> >
> >Â Â Â m->
> >
> >Â Â Â On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 02:25:11PM -0400, Laura Brody via
> Filepro-list
> >Â Â Â thus spoke:
> >Â Â Â > I read an article that said that the police have used the
> GPS info in
> >Â Â Â > photos to find people that have a social media account, but
> are
> >Â Â Â "missing".
> >Â Â Â > Teens that ran away, etc Once theyÃ*Â know where the photo
> was taken,
> >Â Â Â they
> >Â Â Â > have the state and county to start looking for that person.
> I guess
> >Â Â Â that it
> >Â Â Â > could also be used in a legal case. What if someone had
> video or
> >Â Â Â pictures
> >Â Â Â > that prove something, but when you extract the GPS info,
> turns out
> >Â Â Â that the
> >Â Â Â > event was several miles away from what the person claimed.
> Fraud and
> >Â Â Â > perjury. And they are busted. I guess that there are other
> uses too, I
> >Â Â Â just
> >Â Â Â > can't think of any.
> >Â Â Â >
> >Â Â Â > Laura Brody
> >Â Â Â >
> >Â Â Â > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 1:43 PM Bob Rasmussen via
> Filepro-list <
> >Â Â Â > [3][4]filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> >Â Â Â >
> >Â Â Â > > On the topic of GPS coordinates: what use case can you
> think of for
> >Â Â Â this?
> >Â Â Â > > I've been aware of geotagging (an dother EXIF data) in
> photos and
> >Â Â Â videos
> >Â Â Â > > for years, and have written code to extract that data from
> the
> >Â Â Â files, but
> >Â Â Â > > have not come up with many use cases. Ideas?
> >Â Â Â > >
> >Â Â Â > > On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Richard D. Williams via Filepro-list
> wrote:
> >Â Â Â > >
> >Â Â Â > > > Sometimes I think of some neat things I've done over the
> years and
> >Â Â Â just
> >Â Â Â > > feel
> >Â Â Â > > > like sharing.
> >Â Â Â > > >
> >Â Â Â > > > Here are a few: (linux OS)
> >Â Â Â > > >
> >Â Â Â > > > Merge PDFs into a single new PDF:
> >Â Â Â > > > /usr/bin/gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> >Â Â Â > > -sOutputFile=file_new.pdf
> >Â Â Â > > > file1.pdf file2.pdf
> >Â Â Â > > >
> >Â Â Â > > > Extract Pages from a PDF:
> >Â Â Â > > > i.e. page 1-4
> >Â Â Â > > > /usr/bin/gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> -dFirstPage=1
> >Â Â Â > > -dLastPage=4
> >Â Â Â > > > -sOutputFile=file_new.pdf file1.pdf
> >Â Â Â > > >
> >Â Â Â > > > Extract Pages from page # to end:
> >Â Â Â > > > /usr/bin/gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> -dFirstPage=2
> >Â Â Â > > > -sOutputFile=file_new.pdf file1.pdf
> >Â Â Â > > >
> >Â Â Â > > > Get the numbers of pages in a PDF:
> >Â Â Â > > > /usr/bin/pdfinfo file1.pdf | grep "Pages:" | sed
> s/"Pages:"//g |
> >Â Â Â sed s/"
> >Â Â Â > > "//g
> >Â Â Â > > > i.e.
> >Â Â Â > > > 8
> >Â Â Â > > >
> >Â Â Â > > > Get the Lat/Long from a JPG image:
> >Â Â Â > > > exiftool -n -gpslatitude -gpslongitude file2.JPG
> >Â Â Â > > > i.e.
> >Â Â Â > > > GPS LatitudeÃ*Â Ã*Â Ã*Â Ã*Â Ã*Â Ã*Â Ã*Â Ã*Â Ã*Â
> Ã*Â : 31.4998652777778
> >Â Â Â > > > GPS LongitudeÃ*Â Ã*Â Ã*Â Ã*Â Ã*Â Ã*Â Ã*Â Ã*Â
> Ã*Â Ã* : -100.448014444444
> >Â Â Â > > >
> >Â Â Â > > > I hope someone finds this useful.
> >Â Â Â > > >
> >Â Â Â > > > Be safe out there,
> >Â Â Â > > >
> >Â Â Â > > > Richard D. Williams
> >Â Â Â > > >
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