There was a story in the Washington Post this weekend that I thought was very interesting. It was about a hacker and the thousands of bots he controls and it is possible your computer could be one of them. I thought it was pretty brazen of him to even share his story with a global newspaper.
Then just a few days later we get this update from eWeek. Every digital camera these days is capturing tons of metadata that it associates with each image. I know that camera cell phones with a built-in GPS can tag its pictures with a geocoordinate. Obviously the Washington Post didn't use a camera phone, but how many high-end digital cameras have GPS now? I can't think of any other way to determine that this guy lives in Roland, Oklahoma based on the metadata in a picture other than it including a GPS coordinate.
