posted Sat, 12/26/2015 - 12:51
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Is posting pictures safe. I have a friend that says its a bad idea for most. He told me about a function on phones and digital cameras that actually geo tags your pictures meaning it stamps them with your location and time the pic was taken he took my phone and turned this function off so my pics taken on my phone would no longer be tagged. I wanted to bring this up for other eroids members that don't know about this as I didn't. I just want us all to be safe.
Was I the only person that didn't know about this?
How many people have been taking pics with this turned on and posting them?
STAY SAFE BROTHERS
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When on your phone press and hold on a picture. It'll give you the option to search Google for the image. Rarely works as any cropping will stop it and I believe Eroids does that automatically. Only used it once and that was just cos my wife's mother was conned by a guy she met on a dating website. His profile picture of a dog was one used as an advert. I would say as long as goes from camera/phone to Eroids you should be fine.
Probably the biggest problem with posting pictures here, is that you might post the same picture on some other website or that you might have that picture stored on some web server like Photobucket. Then that picture could be cross-referenced to your username and any other pictures you may have posted here.
Safe or smart? As my colleague said below eroids strips the pic for you.
Now as far as a lot of gear pics or taking pics of big orders....is it smart? I'll let you be the judge of that
You want to be more worried about causing a lot of grief for a source.. Bad blood labs, reviews, constant slagging off about bunk gear, the list is endless. And if they realise you put up a photo they can back track and get your address.. All it takes is one of the people who work as the source to be on a heavy cycle with a bunk ai for them to rock on over to your house.. Unlightly but impossible, I wouldn't say so..
RustyhookerThats far fetched. Its a members run site, here to protect other members. Garbage needs to be posted if its justified. Or you're simply protecting that source.
Ive even posted several forums on safety. Maybe they got read 5 times...no drama so low readership. And then again, mass emails flew out and long time members freaking out "how'd he get my email address?" Lmao....guess you better read common sence.
Extremely far fetched I must admit but not impossible. I was rolled over by a domestic source and after a few emails back and forth the matter wasn't resolved to my likings so I decided to write on both of the sources walls with a detailed review and complaints. Then I realised I put up a photo of said order.
Now I'm sure we all know sources have many different addresses some have more than one in the top 10.. there are 100 out comes to this story from ordering from the same source different address and them sending you infected gear to stealing your money.
Yes it's far fetched and yes there is the smallest of possibilities but I only get one body and I'm going to keep it safe. From now on I will upload a 'gear photo' after I've ran the gear and I'm happy with it. Safely first lads.
RustyhookerAnything that keeps ya safe goes a long way.
Seriously. I hope your just drunk talking.
bigmurphWhy would I worry about causing grief for a source thats why I live in America if someone has the balls to knock on my door where I live its completely legal to make sure that they never knock on another door again
Anonymity a beautiful thing.
That's right
Please tell me your not serious.....if you are you need to take off your foil helmet brother.....lmao
I was unaware . How do you turn it off?
RustyhookerCamera...settings....location off
Thanks brotha!
bigmurphMy buddy did it for me so I couldn't even tell you
Shit!
bigmurphMy buddy just told me on android its in settings and go to location services and turn it off
Good call. My paranoid head makes me hesitant to post any selfies here, but I keep my presence off line in general anyway. Don't like to bring too much attention.
bigmurphThat's my thing to big I don't like to post pics of me but I wanted to start putting up the Gear im getting and my younger buddy told me i was crazy let me know about it and turned it off for me
But ifit says they strip the info anyways so nothing to stress
Exif data, including gps, is stripped automatically when you upload.
bigmurphSo even if it was left on i wouldn't have to worry because eroids has my back
Yup
bigmurphI wrote this post hoping anyone who is tech savy could give someone like me who isn't some pointers on things I can do to keep myself safe while participating is there other things I should do. Like turn off my geo tags any other functions i should know about
of course it's not safe to post pics that is just evidence in LE hands.. the best things is not to be posting mad pics like you are on IG..
As long as you have the gps or location function turned off then youre good. But great great topic and point to bring up. Ive recently deleted all my self pics. If i repost ill prob only keep them up for a day or two. Also dont think its very wise to post pics of massive quantities of gear. Could be seen by LE as possible distribution level. I understand posting gear pics to show you received your order and what it looks like. But cant think of any reason to post 20 plus bottle orders. But thats just me and like bigmurph said...stay safe bros
bigmurphI was about to post my first gear pics I just wanted to make sure that im being safe doing it. My buddy turned off the geo tags on my phone. Is there anything else that anyone can inform me of that I should know about before I post them to make sure I do it safely. Not just me but everyone in the eroids family.