Title: Some funny stories about metadata
Date: 2014-07-27 01:00

# The BTK killer
The [BTK Killer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rader) last
known communication with the media and police was an envelope
with a 1.44-MB Memorex floppy disk was enclosed in it.
Police found metadata embedded in a deleted Microsoft Word document that was,
unbeknownst to Rader, recoverable from the disk.
The metadata contained "Christ Lutheran Church", and the document
was marked as last modified by "Dennis". This lead to its capture
in February 2005.

# CabinCr3w member AnonW0rmer conviction
In February 2012, the Twitter account from *AnonW0rmer* posted
a tweet to a website where the information stolen from a law
enforcement websites was available.

At the bottom of the website was a photograph of young woman
holding a sign saying "PwNd by w0rmer & CabinCr3w <3 u BiTch's".

This photo contained metadata, revealing that it was taken
from an iPhone, and thus embeding GPS coordinates. The police
was able to track down AnonW0rmer and his girlfriend.
He was sentenced to 27 month of prison; the couple were
married the within the last day after his release on bond.

# McAfee
On November 12, 2012, Belize police started a search for McAfee as a "person of interest"
in connection to the murder of American expatriate Gregory Viant Faull, a neighbor of McAfee.
In a November 2012 [interview]( http://www.wired.com/2012/12/ff-john-mcafees-last-stand/ ) with Wired,
McAfee said that he has always been afraid police
would kill him and thus refused their routine questions; he has since been evading the Belizean authorities.
[Vice]( http://www.vice.com/read/we-are-with-john-mcafee-right-now-suckers ) accidentally
[gave away his location]( http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/03/vice-leaves-metadata-in-photo-of-john-mcafee-pinpointing-him-to-a-location-in-guatemala/ )
at a Guatemalan resort in early December 2012, when a photo taken by one of its
journalists accompanying McAfee was posted with the Exif geolocation metadata still attached.

# Destroying helicopters
Taken from [this]( http://www.army.mil/article/75165/Geotagging_poses_security_risks/ ) article:
> When a new fleet of helicopters arrived with an aviation unit at a base in Iraq,
> some Soldiers took pictures on the flightline, he said.
> From the photos that were uploaded to the Internet, the enemy was able to determine
> the exact location of the helicopters inside the compound
> and conduct a mortar attack, destroying four of the AH-64 Apaches.

# Stolen camera finder
[stolencamerafinder]( http://stolencamerafinder.com ) crawls the internet
searching for photos, collecting the serial numbers of the cameras that took them.
It then allow users to locate their missing camera given its serial number,
or a photo taken from it.

# Amateur porn and drug dealers
You should _definitively_ build a scraper for pictures
of amateur porn site, or dodgy black-market,
and check their metadata ;)
(Thanks to nextgens and his friend for the idea)