Most people give away there treasure hunting spots without even knowing it.

LuckyThirteen08

LuckyThirteen08

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Last night i was eating dinner with my wife and she was watching one of those reality forensics shows,Myself personally tries to avoid anything to do with cops or private detectives.Been there done that but thought this would be worth sharing.The show is called "Forensic Files" that documents past crimes and how forensics solved the case.The paticular episode was about this girl who had been kidnapped for ransom..long story short,The way they found her after 6 years was by a cellphone photo sent to the parents to taunt them,Every cellphone on earth that takes a picture also embeds the exact GPS coordinates from the satellite it utilizes to send/recieve messages. So if you hit the mother lode you may want to think twice before you use your cellphone to snap a picture as proof.Loose Lips Sink Ships" but apparently So Does bragging rights.lol ,Just thought that was a bit of kool info and felt like sharing it with you guys.



HH,John
 

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I tried this. I got a few people to send me a pic. Not one of them had GPS embedded. One was an android smartphone and I had him make sure the GPS was on. I looked at the files in Photoshop. There is a place where you could see the embedded meta-data. The fields were there but blank. Not to say it can't happen.

Moral of story ... use a real camera instead of a smartphone
 

May depend upon the phone,But they all have the coordinates embedded,Its physically impossible for them not to,How you go about accessing them on certain phones is beyond me.

Maybe if you were in a place with no cellphone signal they may not be there but that would be about the only way.I just thought it was crazy.
 

I think it gets its coordinates from the GPS satellites instead of the cell network. So even without cell service the phone would have the coords. Dang, now you got me curious. I might have to poke around and learn more. But I agree with you ...can't be too careful!
 

Yeah, this is especially rough, considering the nature of this forum. Collectables, gold, silver, hunting spots, hiding places...ect. ect.
 

Apparently from the posts above this has been covered before,But i dont have the time nor the will power to read 500 thousand posts on this forum.Just thought it was neat. I guess if someone posts another silver dime i should send them the links to other ten million dimes on here? or just reply with "Yep,Nothing new here"?? Sorry if you feel its a waste of time but im pretty sure not everyone is aware of this whether its been covered or not already.But thats just one mans opinion.
 

not me I put duct tape over lens on my phone so it can't even be turned on to spy on me.
My Phone is for phone use only.

& my camera is set to 2001 & left there

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just in case I need to lie & say no, that's an old picture ! see :laughing7:
 

jeff of pa said:
not me I put duct tape over lens on my phone so it can't even be turned on to spy on me.
My Phone is for phone use only.

& my camera is set to 2001 & left there

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just in case I need to lie & say no, that's an old picture ! see :laughing7:
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Great Idea!!
 

LuckyThirteen08 said:
Apparently from the posts above this has been covered before,But i dont have the time nor the will power to read 500 thousand posts on this forum.Just thought it was neat. I guess if someone posts another silver dime i should send them the links to other ten million dimes on here? or just reply with "Yep,Nothing new here"?? Sorry if you feel its a waste of time but im pretty sure not everyone is aware of this whether its been covered or not already.But thats just one mans opinion.
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Lucky_T ! post whatever you wish.

Nothing wrong with posting a new thread
 

Jagg you were warned about language, next time it will be a timeout.. This is a family friendly forum...
 

Nah,No hurt feelings,Just met another "I already know everything" type person,Trust me man,You arent the first one of those to frequent a public forum. If i were easily offended by posts in a public forum id probably have no use for my home computer.Its nice to know the information was already on the forum though,Makes it that much more impressive when you join a new group that has already covered the important things most others fail to mention.I just posted it because i frequent a few other metal detecting/treasure hunting forums and knew nothing of this until last night while watching TV.Thanks for reading and replying regardless though.

HH,John
 

LuckyThirteen08 said:
Nah,No hurt feelings,Just met another "I already know everything" type person,Trust me man,You arent the first one of those to frequent a public forum. If i were easily offended by posts in a public forum id probably have no use for my home computer.Its nice to know the information was already on the forum though,Makes it that much more impressive when you join a new group that has already covered the important things most others fail to mention.I just posted it because i frequent a few other metal detecting/treasure hunting forums and knew nothing of this until last night while watching TV.Thanks for reading and replying regardless though.

HH,John
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Hey it's all good. I did not mean to offend. It's just something I do Naturally. LOL
 

ticm said:
Hey it's all good. I did not mean to offend. It's just something I do Naturally. LOL
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We may have more in common than we realize LOL!! No offense taken.
 

I don't take pictures with a phone but I do with an I Pod. It has a feature called airplane mode, if it's turned on I should be able to locate the I Pod if it is lost or stolen, but what if it is off would it still have the that information? The 1st pic has airplane mode off and the 2nd with it on. Can anyboy tell where they were taken?

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