Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
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Re: Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
#2I can confirm there is no GPS coordinates embedded in the photo
Re: Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
#3I can confirm there is no GPS coordinates embedded in the photo
In the actual photo? Is there any meta data? Is there any EXIF data? What was the photo filename, and what does searching for that (with increments up and down) return?
To try and guess what happened:-
1) One of them followed you and got information. (You say this didn't happen.)
2) They had information about the event and worked from there.
3) There were other people in the photo, and they got face-matched, and their friends lists were not hidden, and they got it from that.
4) They had snippets of other information and just trawled through very many searches to get the name.
I'm a bit confused how they didn't already have her name. You told them you met someone, but didn't give any kind of name?
Re: Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
#4If they knew her high school and were doing lots of batch processing, I wonder if they found digital copies of the yearbook and tried facial recognition. For a single subject, it doesn't even need to be particularly accurate- they can easily sift through twenty possible matches with their own eyes.
Re: Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
#5I'm sure there's a lot of information missing from this story, which leads to a lot of possible solutions that aren't negated by the lack of limiting circumstances.
More than likely the author is an idiot and the image had EXIF data. Considering they already knew her highschool, it wouldn't had been to hard to go through the year books in a few hours.
Re: Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
#6I can confirm there is no GPS coordinates embedded in the photo
In the actual photo? Is there any meta data? Is there any EXIF data? What was the photo filename, and what does searching for that (with increments up and down) return? To try and guess what happened:- 1) One of them followed you and got information. (You say this didn't happen.) 2) They had information about the event and worked from there. 3) There were other people in the photo, and they got face-matched, and thei…
That high school she went too might have been a pretty good lead if you know her approximate age.
Re: Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
#7I think the key is knowing what high school she went to. From there, you could possibly get yearbook pictures and student lists. Knowing an approximate age would narrow the possibilities significantly as well.
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#8Re: Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
#9I'm sure there's a lot of information missing from this story, which leads to a lot of possible solutions that aren't negated by the lack of limiting circumstances. More than likely the author is an idiot and the image had EXIF data. Considering they already knew her highschool, it wouldn't had been to hard to go through the year books in a few hours.
I resent the fact that you think I'm an idiot. I have had two engineers check for EXIF data and there is 'nothing interesting in there'
Re: Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
#10I think the key is knowing what high school she went to. From there, you could possibly get yearbook pictures and student lists. Knowing an approximate age would narrow the possibilities significantly as well.
I would probably take a social engineering approach to this problem- if you knew her high school and approximate age you could probably find someone who was in that class who would know her pretty easily. At that point it's just a matter of either tricking them into identifying the photo or just straight-up asking them.