Steganography

Metadata and EXIF secrets

Chapter 2 of 6 · Steganography 33%

📍 In December 2012 a single photo published by Vice carried iPhone EXIF GPS that pinned John McAfee's hideout in Guatemala. Could you read the coordinates a camera quietly wrote?

A scrubbed photo is not a clean photo. EXIF, IPTC and XMP tags hold GPS, comments, even a second hidden thumbnail. You will run exiftool to pull GPS, read UserComment fields, carve the embedded thumbnail and decode hex to ASCII. 🧭

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