I know this maybe stupid, but I like good stories, and this seems like a good story, but seems not real. But then I thought it in reverse, what if a story like that would really happen how would we knew was true? Can we investigate with our IT knowledge?
Who knows if it is true, but the article is useless given it says things like:
The coordinates in the picture indicate that the photo was taken within 3 miles of what Google officially gives for Diego Garcia. It is NOT EXACTLY what comes up on Google. It is off a couple miles, so NO ONE GOOGLED THIS, thus helping to confirm it’s authenticity.
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If anything was used to re-tag this image, it would say so in the software tag of the image. Any time software modifies any aspect of the image, the last thing to touch the image gets put in the software tag. The Iphone’s standard software is in the image tag and nothing else. That means this image has NOT been re-tagged and that is the FIRST THING I checked before posting this story. And NO, YOU CANNOT MODIFY IT WITH A PROGRAMMING EDITOR UNLESS YOU ARE A MACHINE LANGUAGE GENIUS.
the former doesn't confirm anything, and the latter is stupid, since it should be obvious that anyone can edit EXIF tags to say whatever they want.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 25.0 ms ] threadI know this maybe stupid, but I like good stories, and this seems like a good story, but seems not real. But then I thought it in reverse, what if a story like that would really happen how would we knew was true? Can we investigate with our IT knowledge?
The coordinates in the picture indicate that the photo was taken within 3 miles of what Google officially gives for Diego Garcia. It is NOT EXACTLY what comes up on Google. It is off a couple miles, so NO ONE GOOGLED THIS, thus helping to confirm it’s authenticity.
and
If anything was used to re-tag this image, it would say so in the software tag of the image. Any time software modifies any aspect of the image, the last thing to touch the image gets put in the software tag. The Iphone’s standard software is in the image tag and nothing else. That means this image has NOT been re-tagged and that is the FIRST THING I checked before posting this story. And NO, YOU CANNOT MODIFY IT WITH A PROGRAMMING EDITOR UNLESS YOU ARE A MACHINE LANGUAGE GENIUS.
the former doesn't confirm anything, and the latter is stupid, since it should be obvious that anyone can edit EXIF tags to say whatever they want.