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I find it very likely that she was found on the internet somewhere.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't feel bad about letting the discussion continue as-is because of the fact that we completely expected to get the answer with only the information mentioned here. I still haven't heard this method mentioned yet directly. The "extra" information we got came later after we already started working on it, and came as surprise. It just happened to bring the result back sooner than the other approach.
that the extra information brought the result back "sooner" is intriguing. If you don't mind me asking, would other approaches discussed here have brought the result nonetheless? or did they?
I'm the engineer he's referring to. I still get a laugh seeing Justin's amazement when we told him her name. To answer a few questions... - This isn't the actual photo but looks similar, except that she was alone. Justin was afraid of reposting the same photo after the results of handing over a photo last time :) - There was no useful exif data in the image. - We knew her high school and approximate age in Austin, bu…
Or maybe you knew that she wanted him to meet her at an event and you found a roster for that event- or ie if it was a real estate convention you would have a pretty good idea that she was a realtor and could look at websites for realtors in Austin.
Or maybe you checked his recent facebook friends, looked at his recent twitter followers, and everyone who liked/commented on his recent photos/posts on Instagram and whatever other social networks he's on- as well as the photos/posts he liked/commented on.
I think you took a (relatively) low-tech approach to this.
1) They were running software on a computer for hours
They are engineers!
2) The first couple of tries didn’t work
Are you sure they weren't debugging?
3) They knew what high school she went too prior to searching
If they know the high school they only have to find one or two established teachers who were around for a long period of time. It is not unlikely they can call a name from a picture after all those years.
This smells like viral marketing to me (too bad I still don't know what close.io is, should have added some information to the article. Or are you looking for new engineers? "Hey look! At close.io we seal bets with engineers. About girls! Come work for us!").
I'm the engineer he's referring to. I still get a laugh seeing Justin's amazement when we told him her name. To answer a few questions... - This isn't the actual photo but looks similar, except that she was alone. Justin was afraid of reposting the same photo after the results of handing over a photo last time :) - There was no useful exif data in the image. - We knew her high school and approximate age in Austin, bu…
I'm the engineer he's referring to. I still get a laugh seeing Justin's amazement when we told him her name. To answer a few questions... - This isn't the actual photo but looks similar, except that she was alone. Justin was afraid of reposting the same photo after the results of handing over a photo last time :) - There was no useful exif data in the image. - We knew her high school and approximate age in Austin, bu…
Find the event Thursday night at 8:00pm in Austin and start tracking down from there.
One of the things that looks like a clue to me is that this the lead engineer of close.io. Browsing through their site, it looks like they do "telecom in an API"; it reminds me of Twilio and OneBox. So, here's a thought. Let's say the Engineer has access to the SMS logs (NSA-style) for Justin's phone. (Maybe his phone goes through their system. But even if not, maybe it's company-provided, so there's an admin interfa…
I did have an idea that we could try to hack his Verizon account to look at his SMS log, figuring that Forgot Password questions might be easy or that we could intercept an email. But we didn't do this.