Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer

Post by bdamm » Wed, Sep 11, 2013, 10:27 PM UTC

niuzeta wrote: post #78

philfreo wrote: post #62

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I'm pretty confident it would have, but we ultimately "stopped" it after getting the answer confirmed, so I can't say with 100%.

So you stumbled on a piece of information which proved useful, notwithstanding that you didn't intend to look for. If Justin observed correctly, you guys were very impressed with yourselves. Had you retrieved the answer by methods of which you were confident, you would've still been impressed, but not greatly.(I'm making a lapse conjecture here, of course) Since you were confident that you would be able to find her,…

Post by Someone » Wed, Sep 11, 2013, 10:30 PM UTC

fnordfnordfnord wrote: post #56

Someone wrote: post #34

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The same two engineers who found out who she was? :-) Seriously: given your story, if, say, they are colleagues, too, they may be in on it, and lie to you about the EXIF data (if they _are_ engineers, they certainly lied; how can there ever be 'nothing interesting' in EXIF data :-)?) Most of the time, the simple answer is the likely one. My money is on the high school-yearbook line, but it might have been anything (d…

> how can there ever be 'nothing interesting' in EXIF data :-)?) If one strips all of the metadata a photo, or replaces it with metadata from another photo, or makes up some bogus metadata.

Post by rorrr2 » Wed, Sep 11, 2013, 10:34 PM UTC

philfreo wrote: post #17

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…

Post by philfreo » Wed, Sep 11, 2013, 10:38 PM UTC

wtracy wrote: post #54

I wonder what the resolution of the original image was? The inside of her thumb is visible through the glass, so with enough detail it might be possible to record her thumb print. Even if you could do that, though, odds are against her print being present in any publicly-available database.

Post by masterzora » Wed, Sep 11, 2013, 10:50 PM UTC

jbg331 wrote: post #139

philfreo wrote: post #136

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Or, have some faith in humanity, considering: - This was just a fun bet between friends. Justin really didn't think it could be done and I wanted to show him how a little information goes a long way online. - Justin treated this girl well and she even knew about this bet. - "Look up online" != Stalking - None of the discovered information has been posted publicly online. This isn't even her photo.

When I told her about the bet she laughed and took it all in stride. She thought it was funny.