ULPT request: Urgently need to know how to fool a geo-tagging app

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q_ali_seattle@reddit

Can you type? GPT python script to edit.... 3... 2... 1 done!!

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funnyfaceking@reddit

Drop out of school and lie on your resume for the rest of your life.

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douganater@reddit

Airplane mode, Change Date & Time, Take Pic.

Otherwise per Antares42 an EXIF editor if photo already exists

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NoMan999@reddit

Airplane mode shouldn't turn localisation off. GPS data only goes from satellites down to the device, not the other way around.

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Could someone do what you describe above to fake the delivery time of a package? Could they, for instance, change the time in the settings of their phone by going backwards 10 hours, and no one else would be any wiser to the quick edit?

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douganater@reddit

Unlikely.

Take Photo using Devliery app & Send to server = Time logged as time of delivery.

The EXIF edit would only affect the time in the photo itself, so the delivery man would be unable to alter his time of Upload that the server would count as the delivery time

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TheIronSoldier2@reddit

And if your time was significantly off while trying to upload the photo, there's a good chance that upload will fail as HTTPS encryption generally requires the real time to be fairly close to the device time to work right.

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Revolutionary-Half-3@reddit

Most delivery apps have their own gps and time recording independent of the photo, although I'd assume the app stuffs all that plus some kind of verification into the exif code for the photo that the app uploads with the delivery confirmation.

Many websites strip exif data before sharing images by default. I'd assume any delivery photo will be stripped before a customer sees it, although the company probably retains an unedited version.

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GuestStarr@reddit

Yes, if exif data of the picture taken is used to track the delivery time. There could be some telltale signs of that being done, like shadows (referring to the position of the sun at the actual point of time) in the picture. I'm not sure if the time stamp of the picture file could reflect to the actual time, but that could also be tricked either by directly editing it or again by using wrong time in the clock of the device used for editing. I just might have had to do some research on this back in the day..

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