Good security practices are a must, whether you live in the Cisco universe or the more mundane realm of drug pushing.
Case in point: Photos On Dark Web Reveal Geo-locations Of 229 Drug Dealers — Here’s How by Swati Khandelwal.
From the post:
It’s a Fact! No matter how smart the criminals are, they always leave some trace behind.
Two Harvard students have unmasked around 229 drug and weapon dealers with the help of pictures taken by criminals and used in advertisements placed on dark web markets.
Do you know each image contains a range of additional hidden data stored within it that can be a treasure to the investigators fighting criminals?
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Whatever services you are offering on the Dark Web, here’s an opportunity to reduce the amount of competition you are facing.
Perhaps even a reward from CrimeStoppers, although you need to price shop against your local organization for the better deal.
Failure to scrub Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) data lies at the heart of this technique.
See Swati’s post for more details on this “hack.”
Do your civic duty to reduce crime (your competitors) and be rewarded in the process.
Who says cybersecurity can’t be a profit center? 😉