Can You Find Where a Picture was Taken?

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[@Francois_L_7933]

And if the GPS coordinates and the location tags are missing, you can sorta guess by using the time offset tag. This will give you the timezone in which the picture was taken. This will isolate 1/24th of the locations on the planet from the get go.

[@spermythewhale2987]

S-Tier comment. Thank you, king

[@0x7ddf1]

Awesome, thank you

[@RunicSigils]

@@spermythewhale2987 They were wrong so definitely not.
The main point of being able to greatly narrow things down by knowing the offset stands so I guess we can call it A-tier, but the usage of time zones is far more complex than they make it out to be.
There are 38 total time zones currently, not 24 as they imply by 1/24th. There are 30 and 45 minute time zones as well.
Also, a lot of places don't use what you would expect them to use or maybe even use time zones at all in some cases despite being more than wide enough that they should be using multiple time zones.
Finally, daylight savings time is not observed everywhere either meaning sometimes the offset isn't always going to be the same so you're possibly only narrowing it down to one of two time zones.
All in all, knowing the offset can give you more or less specificity than the OP implies and could even mean your location assumption is wrong if you're pretending that every place follows the same rules.

[@codyjohnson2821]

​@@spermythewhale2987king? 😂

[@ertyplax_png]

Bye mom, I'm going to cat sanctuary

[@d21852]

I could watch John work on the terminal for hours 😂👌🏻 not going to lie, paying attention to how this guy works has made me much faster on my projects

[@tehpimpmasta]

You nailed it.. several months ago I deleted windows entirely on literally 4 laptops and installed some distros, having little to no experience.. and well.. needless to say, after all this time… I realise I’ll NEVER be anywhere near this proficient. Beginning to think I’m retarded and nobody ever told me. Lol.

[@emmashepard2070]

Makes sense why Facebook wants only photos with metadata when creating an account. So much info baked in photos. Neat.

[@ttltm]

Isn't this basic stuff? I mean everyone knows about exif, and reverse image search is just common sense. I was really curious in methods to bypass the scrapping of exif and other metadata, and still being able to locate it. I know I heard somewhere that facebook does something like this where it embeds in the actual image "bitmap" / data some tracking mumbo-jumbo.

[@tehpimpmasta]

Steganography? Idk. But you’d be surprised how many people don’t know (or forget) the most basic of ways to work things out… {I got absolutely destroyed by a “basic” page on hackthissite - 😂😅💀🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🫥

[@redmarble5624]

We may be aware of these basic methods, but not everyone does.

[@siddiki9778]

Yeah, this was super basic. I thought he would read the hexcode of the image or something like that

[@antoineleduc7611]

Its what was required for this ctf.

[@bmt626]

When the thumbnail shows a location near you that will surely get your attention😂😂😂😂

[@TheCramik]

Solved this entirely with reverse image search, didn't even touch the exif lol

[@GenesisAkaG]

TL;DW EXIF exists yo

[@ulyssesfister3735]

20% of this entire video was an ad. Quality goes down as sponsors come in I see. Gotta pump these out!

[@Asteroid10010]

Thanks John for this information

[@Asteroid10010]

@@ertyplax_png what ?

[@ertyplax_png]

@@Asteroid10010 sorry wrong comment

[@JohnDoe-ig1vu]

Fantastic as always!

[@moneyboyok]

Really good video, well edited too

[@ilusions4]

half of this video is an ad
I loooooove current year+8

[@meetkumarpatel9538]

John can you please make tutorials video on Memory forensics please

[@tyronemguni3895]

I love this guy

[@abhaykush]

Pls make a complete series on CTFs

[@ilya_fimin]

Ok intresting information

[@KwiatekMiki]

yes.

[@februalist4686]

this site is sooooo cute im melting 😍😍😍😍

[@tbuk8350]

@georainbolt could probably find this exact location instantly based on the color of the grass and the small structure in the background.

[@AUBCodeII]

What's going on TH-cam, this is-- whoops, wrong channel

[@tc_kommark]

What capture the flag were you playing?

[@horizonforevergold]

Now that's another Ctf for ya :P hint: lactf.uclaacm

[@donttrusttheape]

Now I need to know how modify this info 🤔

[@_JohnHammond]

exiftool lets you write metadata-- will have to show that in another video!

[@donttrusttheape]

@@_JohnHammond sweet!

[@aleksejs_kruks]

@@_JohnHammond or MAT2: Metadata / EXIF Tool

[@YamadAKun-zp9sl]

Sir it's Workable in
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[@drygordspellweaver8761]

no because I take a screenshot and save it as a png

[@mub1n]

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[@NAKAEtekq]

💥✌

[@romeoC9968]

Why even the need to create the meta data in the first place?
Better off using film based cameras, then scan the image if needed electronically

[@alyti]

at least discord strips all exif data to prevent shenanigans like this

[@amshermansen]

And yet it refuses to shrink images for you, unless you pay for Nitro to bypass it anyway.

[@alyti]

@@amshermansen one is a privacy feature and the other is a convinience feature, im just glad its there at all

[@neon_Nomad]

Osint made easy exiftool

[@maristdavid5676]

2nd

[@theycallmenoob07]

1st

[@haha32599123]

First

[@tostupidforname]

Hawaii is a state? wtf