Kingsley 19 Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 If you have a fancy smart phone (iphone etc) that has a GPS, turn it off when you take pics of your fish AT YOUR FISHING LOCATION...Your current GPS location is stored in the picture (EXIF data), giving away your 'spot x'. Or if you take a picture of your catch at home...So do yourself a boral paver, turn off your GPS, or disable the option to store your current location in pics. chunky, Tyke, afishyfish and 1 other 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firefly 1 Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 wow never would of thought of that one !!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tyke 0 Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Yep,phones are gonna get a swim if they ain't checked.BTW,some camera's do this. Our latest Sony gives the GPS location as well. :blink: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moggy23 625 Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 The charter operators would hate those phones. Smile, I want to take your pic and GPS mark. :f Rickster 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest boys day out Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 The charter operators would hate those phones. Smile' date=' I want to take your pic and GPS mark. :f[/quote'] LMAO :whistle: :whistle: fullysikwog and Rickster 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
afishyfish 4 Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 If you have a fancy smart phone (iphone etc) that has a GPS' date=' turn it off when you take pics of your fish AT YOUR FISHING LOCATION...Your current GPS location is stored in the picture (EXIF data), giving away your 'spot x'. Or if you take a picture of your catch at home...So do yourself a boral paver, turn off your GPS, or disable the option to store your current location in pics.[/quote']Thnks for the heads up Kingsley ! Most of my fish will be caught in my backyard now Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Skudded 0 Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 haha its kinda funny, I replied to a thread like this on a 4wd forum just yesterday. Exif can be very easily removed with any Exif remover program, just google Exif Remover, run the pics through the program before you post them and your info is kept to yourself. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
afishyfish 4 Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 haha its kinda funny' date=' I replied to a thread like this on a 4wd forum just yesterday. Exif can be very easily removed with any Exif remover program, just google Exif Remover, run the pics through the program before you post them and your info is kept to yourself.[/quote']This one SK ?http://www.rlvision.com/exif/about.asp Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kingsley 19 Posted February 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 There's a few online options.http://www.exif-remove.de/ (128Mb size limit)http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/exifremover-remove-exif-data/ (10Mb size limit)http://exifremover.com/exifremover.php (1Mb size limit)and more if you google them Quote Link to post Share on other sites
afishyfish 4 Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 So even a "private" ad with a photo of any item for sale is potentially no longer private :whistle: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kingsley 19 Posted February 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 yup.The recording of GPS data in photos is called GeoTagging. It is a fairly decent idea (how many times have you looked at a photo and said, where was that taken?), but it poses privacy issues if the person taking the photos is unaware of it and shares these photos.It doesn't help that some 'smart phones' are set by default to record this info, and most of these phone users are totally oblivious to the fact.So yeah For Sale ads with GeoTagged photos means anyone can see where the item is located... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MickSA 2 Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Thanks for the heads up mate, i use phones for what they are intended. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
phear 0 Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 and thats the technology we have imagine what the government have scary thought!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kingsley 19 Posted March 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 For anyone interested, I've knocked up a simple EXIF Remover tool that will strip all EXIF data from multiple files very easily.Just simply select all the files you want to strip, and drag and drop them onto the file icon. It will then create new files without the EXIF data.EXIFRemover.zipAnd for anyone super interested, I have attached the delphi source code for EXIF Remover.EXIFRemover_SourceCode.zip Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Borryking 6 Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 Better yet, what program do you use to retrieve the exif data :silly: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kingsley 19 Posted March 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 heh heh heh... now that would be telling :pwouldn't want to go stealing your fellow site member's spot x's now would you.but I wouldn't begrudge you stealing spots from other sites members! :DBTW I took the liberty of searching all pics on here, and can tell you not many actually have GPS locations. And the ones that do, I've PM'd to let them know Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AliKat 0 Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 geeze!so if i have a simple phone? with no gps they cant track the pic?i know i know,! but im illiterate with tecky stuff, only just learnt to txt and set the alarm!If its scary for you teckys imagine us poor souls that havent a clue what these gadjets can even do.sigh and i just bought a digital camera.Alikath. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kingsley 19 Posted March 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 nope, the worst they can do is see what type of phone you have and when you took the pic Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ale 301 Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 Having just got a smart phone I find all this very intresting, but also very worrying. It raise all sort sof issues:photos of your kids, location of where you live, places you keep your cars, boats... scary to think of it all Quote Link to post Share on other sites
afishyfish 4 Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 heh heh heh... now that would be telling :pwouldn't want to go stealing your fellow site member's spot x's now would you.but I wouldn't begrudge you stealing spots from other sites members! :DBTW I took the liberty of searching all pics on here' date=' and can tell you not many actually have GPS locations. And the ones that do, [b']I've PM'd to let them know[/b] I was thinking exactly the same thing could happen Kingsley :whistle: I didnt say anything just in case anyone got ideas, though you'd obviously hope no-one here would !Well done on the PMs too ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wadey 4 Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 thanks for the info mate Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AliKat 0 Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 whew,ty mateAlikath Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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