[apple-iphone] iphone camera embeding location in photos
just ran across the following article about how the iphone and other camera phones are giving away your location in the pictures you take.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20010809-83.html?tag=mncol;mlt_related
quote:
NEW YORK--Be warned: If you take a snapshot with your iPhone or other camera-enabled gadget, it may divulge more information about you than your photographic abilities.
At the Next HOPE hacker conference here on Friday, a security researcher demonstrated how he scanned over 2.5 million photo links posted to Twitter and extracted exact latitude and longitude coordinates embedded in over 65,000 photos -- typically without the user's knowledge.
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