Anonymous Member Arrested After Posting Pic of Girlfriend

[NuclearShadow]

After analyzing the photo, the FBI determined that it was taken by an iPhone. GPS co-ordinates were also lifted from the image, leading officials to the exact South Wantirna street and house where the busty photo was taken.

I find this to be frightening. Why the hell are GPS co-ordinates even being recorded into the photo? GPS functions on a phone fine, that is great and can be a handy feature. But putting that info into things where it doesn't belong?!

At the very least this data should not be recorded in any copy of the photo that gets uploaded to any device that isn't specifically allowed such. But I am guessing this function is by default on and doesn't have a option to only share with specifically approved devices it uploads to.

Imagine the massive amount of people who do not turn this feature off. You can't deny that stalking can and has started online. Now imagine a teen girl getting a creepy online stalker and the picture she uploads to Twitter shows the stalker exactly where she is through the GPS recorded in the picture. Would you want to chance that being your daughter?

 

[tulx]

lol, and these kids call themselves "hackers"....pathetic.

 

[verbalizer]

the downfall begins and it was because of a pair of 'twins'..

 

[wiyosaya]

As Forrest Gump said - "Stupid is as stupid does."

 

[captjack5169]

This issue was posted on Ars Technica and Wired magazine over a month ago. Epic Fail Tom's

 

[RADIO_ACTIVE]

Just couldn't stay away from FB ehhh.....

 

[Guest]

@sanister: "Seriously? He's a supposed hacker and he wasn't intelligent enough to wipe the exif data off the image?"

Why would he be? Anon arent hackers, they're just script kiddies.

 

[gm0n3y]

So the real moral of the story here is: Don't use Facebook.

 

[Hanin33]

since when do police get granted special privacy privileges that others do not? last i heard, they're still public servants working for a public entity which means their information is open to Freedom of Information Act access. how is this any different from anyone in the public requesting said information, granted you'd have to request each person's information individually and not all in one pop, and posting it on a blog or the such? this is perfectly legal. being a police officer is tough but they are not above the law or granted rights beyond those granted to anyone else in their personal lives. this is still the USA we're talking about in this story and not yet East Germany pre-wall removal. If the police officers have something to fear that their comrades or the law can't protect them from, then there's something wrong elsewhere, not in the disclosure of publicly accessible data...

 

[dalauder]

[citation][nom]mightymaxio[/nom]Well what about all the laws hackers circumvent to force their opinion? Isn't this the same thing that they do to us without our permission forcing us to believe in what they believe in? In my mind they are terrorists every last one of them so let them burn for their actions the same as a terrorist![/citation]These hackers commit crimes and are subject to prosecution under the full extent of the law. If one cannot be proven to be a terrorist or criminal within legal means, then going beyond those means to prove it lowers the prosecutor to a similar level. I personally appreciate the fact that the government needs warrants to arrest people and evidence to prosecute. Or would you rather live in Soviet Russia during the Great Purge? Because that doesn't sound that safe or secure to me.

 

[kinggraves]

[citation][nom]Pailin[/nom]Anyone releaseing police personnel's personal information with addresses and phone No's needs their arses kicked.Some Really nasty pieces of work some of those good cops put away safely are the Last people an officer would like to have handed their family's home address...you might not like "The Police" but there are some Really Good people there too working hard to make our lives better.I like to think Anonymous' actions on the whole lead to a safer world for all of us... ...but this guys actions are as stupid as it gets - people "could" still die as a result of this muppets actions -.-"[/citation]

Those nasty pieces of work shouldn't have the internet in prison to SEE the information. I do realize they could get it from the outside regardless, prisoners are quite resourceful. But who's to say they couldn't get it anyway? Believe me, if someone you love gets locked away, you're going to know the name and badge of the pork chop that put them there. Criminals do not need help getting that information, it's on their records. Knowing a name and location, they can get the addresses and phones.

Far too many police are abusing their power. Reality is that officer's names ARE public. They're supposed to have their name and badge clearly readable and visible. Good cops have it out there already. Bad cops are the only ones hiding it. Look how many people in these comments alone do not even know their rights when dealing with police.

I can't agree with any personal information that brings innocent family into the mix, but there needs to be a lot more supervision over our police. It gets old having to read about crooked cops who are clearly proven to be corrupt getting at worst a paid vacation on my taxes. If the feds won't protect us from cops misbehaving, then it's up to us as citizens to protect ourselves. How many lives do you think are destroyed because a bad cop was bored one night?

Keep yukking it up about how he's going to get it in prison, sheep. Pay your taxes and do what Uncle Sam says or you'll be in there with him. This is why they want to have your personal information from companies like Facebook. It won't be long before it doesn't matter what you erase.

 

[Guest]

They should have just called Apple they could have tracked him by the anus mounted GPS tracker the apple fanboys have been rocking.

 

[f-14]

The agency found Ochoa on Facebook where he openly named the Australian girl as his girlfriend, thus connecting his Facebook account to the Twitter account and the images of the unnamed Australian girl.

anon and using fb. morons! the entire lot of them! funny thing is the FBI has a purchase account with FB, they didn't even need a warrant. was going to say anon must be made up of entirely iFreaks who think they are unhackable, the iPhone GPS bit pretty much answered that!

 

[Guest]

the goverment is watching