We're in a slightly scifi dystopian setting so a little finagling is fine but I try to keep things realistically based. My poor boy has been blackmailed into helping another character locate the head of the company. The target is rich and paranoid, but he does make video calls and public broadcasts which our boy has access to. Now naturally, our target is presumably using some sort of VPN so we need a backdoor method.
I've heard of locations being given away by metadata in photos. What information would that include? Would there be anything that would identify the specific camera?
I also like the idea of sort of backtracking the signal through microsecond delays in public broadcasts. In theory it's going to get to places that are closer to the origin before those that are further. Does that make sense?
Is there a tracking method that would make more sense?
I am very not tech savvy. He doesn't really need to be able to explain how it works fully, just what he did. Though more info would be useful.
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Please help my hacker make sense
Date: 2024-05-05 12:29 pm (UTC)Now naturally, our target is presumably using some sort of VPN so we need a backdoor method.
I've heard of locations being given away by metadata in photos. What information would that include? Would there be anything that would identify the specific camera?
I also like the idea of sort of backtracking the signal through microsecond delays in public broadcasts. In theory it's going to get to places that are closer to the origin before those that are further. Does that make sense?
Is there a tracking method that would make more sense?
I am very not tech savvy. He doesn't really need to be able to explain how it works fully, just what he did. Though more info would be useful.