Messenger, Facebook messaging has a bad habit to geotag default sent messages, results can be followed to track an accuracy of one meter!
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True to its reputation, Facebook shows a little more than demonstrate its services indiscretion. This time he is Messenger, which has a bad habit of geotag users. A student has developed an application called Marauder's Map to show to everyone, the danger it poses to privacy.
Marauder's Map: the application to keep track anyone
Messaging Messenger geolocates default each message, which leaves a trace in the metadata of the message with GPS coordinates. Until then, many will say " that's it! ". With a single message, the information is certainly unnecessary, but the accumulation of this data allows to know absolutely everything from a person's private life without his knowledge.
To demonstrate this fact, Aran Khanna, a Harvard student has designed a fully legal application that analyzes and compiles metadata Messenger messages and to his surprise the accuracy of GPS is so important that we can namely to the nearest meter, where was the person when she sent the message. The student said on this point: " In the extension coding, I particularly noticed that the latitude and longitude retained in the metadata is data with such precision that it is easy to locate the user within one meter ". Better, it is possible to know where his friends live and track to track on a map, when they send a message on Messenger!
Facebook: privacy again undermined with Messenger
With chat history, it is possible to know what makes a person the last days, weeks, months ... everything depends on the accumulation of information available History. It is thus possible to know where a person may be and at what time, with frightening accuracy.
Aran Khanna has even demonstrated its application Marauder's Map, it could know in what class were his friends or students what room they were! Marauder's Map is an extension that works on the Chrome browser. Another worrying point, he also proved it was possible to keep track of people you do not know, simply by retrieving the metadata present in the group discussions ... It is pretty simple theory to redo the Full-time employment of a person both in time and in space, if that regularly use Messenger.
Facebook reacted and said he took seriously this discovery and that he would see how to correct this point, especially since it is a default setting, which very few users know or understand the real implications of their privacy.
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True to its reputation, Facebook shows a little more than demonstrate its services indiscretion. This time he is Messenger, which has a bad habit of geotag users. A student has developed an application called Marauder's Map to show to everyone, the danger it poses to privacy.
Marauder's Map: the application to keep track anyone
Messaging Messenger geolocates default each message, which leaves a trace in the metadata of the message with GPS coordinates. Until then, many will say " that's it! ". With a single message, the information is certainly unnecessary, but the accumulation of this data allows to know absolutely everything from a person's private life without his knowledge.
To demonstrate this fact, Aran Khanna, a Harvard student has designed a fully legal application that analyzes and compiles metadata Messenger messages and to his surprise the accuracy of GPS is so important that we can namely to the nearest meter, where was the person when she sent the message. The student said on this point: " In the extension coding, I particularly noticed that the latitude and longitude retained in the metadata is data with such precision that it is easy to locate the user within one meter ". Better, it is possible to know where his friends live and track to track on a map, when they send a message on Messenger!
Facebook: privacy again undermined with Messenger
With chat history, it is possible to know what makes a person the last days, weeks, months ... everything depends on the accumulation of information available History. It is thus possible to know where a person may be and at what time, with frightening accuracy.
Aran Khanna has even demonstrated its application Marauder's Map, it could know in what class were his friends or students what room they were! Marauder's Map is an extension that works on the Chrome browser. Another worrying point, he also proved it was possible to keep track of people you do not know, simply by retrieving the metadata present in the group discussions ... It is pretty simple theory to redo the Full-time employment of a person both in time and in space, if that regularly use Messenger.
Facebook reacted and said he took seriously this discovery and that he would see how to correct this point, especially since it is a default setting, which very few users know or understand the real implications of their privacy.