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Immature, but I really loved this comment/idea and wonder about the feasibility of such attacks:

"You know what this means:

Time to rewrite your EXIF info and location bomb the hell out of popular attractions. Eiffel Tower in Paris? Nope, it's in Iowa ..." [1]

Possible? Google bomb with a twist?

1: http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/nkktm/facebook_is_reall...



Yep, it would be good to show that this kind of data is not reliable and easily manipulated. But probably it will not happen.


There's anecdotal evidence, a little bit further down, of this actually happening: someone mentions Facebook thinking that their pictures of a trip to London were taken in England, Arkansas!

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/nkktm/facebook_is_reall...




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