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'Cree.py' Social Engineering Tool Pinpoints A Person's Physical Location

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Re: 'Cree.py' Social Engineering Tool Pinpoints A Person's Physical Location

#11
Does anyone remember an application that uses the information gathered by tools like this to predict where a user will be at any given time? I'm not sure I understand the difference between that concept and what this does?

If no-one has actually built it, then I'm really disappointed as it's quite simple - and I would be pretty easy to locate too. We're all creatures of habit.

Re: 'Cree.py' Social Engineering Tool Pinpoints A Person's Physical Location

#12

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spam?

Either that or a hacker so twitchy they don't have time to check for ctrl-v's before hitting update to get back to their spambot side project.

Re: 'Cree.py' Social Engineering Tool Pinpoints A Person's Physical Location

#13

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spam?

Yes, click the 'link' by the post, then flag it.

Re: 'Cree.py' Social Engineering Tool Pinpoints A Person's Physical Location

#14
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it does other stuff like mine pictures for meta tags, the privacy implications of which wouldn't be obvious to a non-techie.

Ah, you're quite right. Then maybe this will bring broader attention to their implications.

which is a supremely optimistic assessment :-)

Re: 'Cree.py' Social Engineering Tool Pinpoints A Person's Physical Location

#16
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, you're quite right. Then maybe this will bring broader attention to their implications.

which is a supremely optimistic assessment :-)

Well, Firesheep got an NYT article, who knows! :)

Re: 'Cree.py' Social Engineering Tool Pinpoints A Person's Physical Location

#17
post #4

Neat. It's pretty much exactly what Color is trying to do, except it cost $41 million less to make.

Speaking of Color, you can use Color it in combination with this locator and this:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/color-hack-allows-users-...

to massively multiply your creep factor.

Re: 'Cree.py' Social Engineering Tool Pinpoints A Person's Physical Location

#18
post #6

Well, I hope this doesn't surprise anyone. I'm running under the assumption that people who use Foursquare and other such geolocation services are fully aware that they can be used to find out where they've been. If that assumption is false, I think I'm going to become a hermit.

Well, it does other stuff like mine pictures for meta tags, the privacy implications of which wouldn't be obvious to a non-techie.

And I doubt most people realise;

Twitters tweet location

* Coordinates when tweet was posted from mobile device [side note: is this feature 'enabled' by default on some mobile clients?]

* Place (geographical name) derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface. Place gets translated into coordinates using geonames.com

* Bounding Box derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface. The less accurate source, a corner of the bounding box is selected randomly.

Re: 'Cree.py' Social Engineering Tool Pinpoints A Person's Physical Location

#19
post #7
post #2

This is awesome. Kinda scary for you guys that use geolocation with everything though. I personally try to avoid it.

Geo-tagging your photos is kinda cool, and it's a feature that I would find interesting if I had a device that supported it, but I would make _sure_ to strip those tags before publishing the photos anywhere.

Startup idea: Strip.py?

Re: 'Cree.py' Social Engineering Tool Pinpoints A Person's Physical Location

#20
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

which is a supremely optimistic assessment :-)

Well, Firesheep got an NYT article, who knows! :)

It has gotten some attention from mainstream media already , and that's nice imho. People should get "scared" and aware . http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/smartphone-apps-tracking-ke...

http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/03/11/05

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