It was the social media footprint that screwed him over, which is what linked the photo to Hong Kong. Without that it would had been practically impossible to locate. Moral of the story is to air gap your accounts. Separate everything for the things you want to keep private that don't cross reference anything outside of the thing you want to keep private. Using your 2006 hotmail email for your dumb secrets that is linked to literally everything you have ever done online is the most common way of screw yourself over.
Fun? fact: There has been loads of times where someone has been found irl either by the police or random strangers because of a stranger or their friend just randomly taking a picture and posting it online. Without thinking about what/who’s in the background and not understanding that some people don’t want to have their life shared online with random strangers. It’s also why doxing/publicly revealing someone’s personal address without permission is actually illegal. Because you are basically incentivising potentially bad people to go to that persons location and possibly putting that persons life in danger if they have people that don’t like them.
I guess you missed imageboard (4ch?) autists combing a whole desert on google maps satellite layer to find where some muslim bigshot's photo with 2 obelisks in background was taken.
@@mongolifepawn842 You literally have visual evidence and the guy explaining his thought pattern, its clearly not fake, you can train yourself to see things very analytically like this
@@thatlonewolfguy2878 it's fake... he probably looks at the data the phone saves on the picture. Location data is a thing, and apos like Facebook will be able to tag where you were when you took the picture. It's a feature that Facebook implemented in 2004, I might be off a year or 2, but nobody uses it anymore. Then you just bs the reasoning to get to the place.
@@thatlonewolfguy2878 and to quote "Armageddon" "American components; Russian components; all made in Taiwan." You can't separate my patterns and stuff, because most of the world get the supplies from the same place.
Reminds me of Operation Capture The Flag, where 4chan found a log cabin inside a museum in Finland that Shia Lebouf was renting for his HWNDU Livestream
With all the AI voodoo all of this will become even crazier. Instead of doing that manually you can just sic the bots at it to scour through your 10k pictures for some dumb pattern, and every month it becomes easier and easier to do for non-programmers.
@@Asdayasman That's exactly what those reverse image searchers do. There is no reason why it couldn't be expanded to anything and everything in google maps etc too. And to get truly good results you'd need to train the model to be specifically tailored for the task, which will be slow and computationally expensive, but there are people who'd go to absurd lengths in order to dox someone. Even if it means training your own model to be expert at recognizing wood grain patterns of some specific type of a table around the world.
The issue with digital images is that you can scrape the metadata off anything and get a location instantly. But yeah people can geoguess stuff like this with enough practice.
Usually social media removes EXIF data that has geografical coordibates, and the uncrop function doesnt work unless the file format is DNG I'm pretty sure
Between this guy, HWNDU season 3-6, and the Tom Scott eclipse video from about 9 years ago, I have learned very important lessons about posting information online.
Fun fact, he has talked about this. And he basically said, no he nor any other geogessr pro (that he knows) has been contacted by a government body. I think he said, alot of the ppl that do stuff like this for the feds, do a good enough job. and they prob also have better tools than just using google/photoshop.
“He just does this for fun?” It always surprises me that people don’t realize how weird or unexpected someone’s hobbies could be. I’m almost 40 and the primary thing I ask for from my wife on holidays is LEGO sets cause I love building them and adding them to my setup. It’s my version of ‘guy who likes train sets’ 😂
I mean, it's the same reason why I started learning how to pick locks around the age of 13-14 (pre-youtube era), I just found it fun to take things apart and set them back together again and just happened to pick up on how most locking mechanisms seemed to operate by accident.
I think he has a video of him taking CIA tests about locations where it’s not only about where something is but at which day a picture was taken and stuff like that.
*Starting to see the advantages of my unwillingness to post photos on social media... *Notices that I would still be fucked thanks to my parents or relatives posting photos online and so my advantages instantly got thrown in the trash... welp... guess there is no use bothering about it.
Pretty neat how he goes through the process like a how to guide on stalking people from the smallest details. Can’t see how anyone would get any ideas from this
2:56 he missed a chance to use Gaussian anti-aliasing or any anti-aliasing for that matter. Coupled with higher contrast and gray scale he could stop guessing the letters on the menu and instead just read it. Since there is some data in those pixels, if they were completely black he wouldnt as you cant tune data if there is no data (color data to be specific). fliping it was also a good move
The title would be: "How to Doxxing People Starter tutorial." Actually seeing news about stalkers or videos like this made me realize how easy it is to track some place or someone, to the point where I assume many Vtuber/RUclipsrs/Famous people have already been known real identity by someone somewhere right now they just have no reason or still human enough to not expose it.
the funniest part to me is that watching this, the very moment he came up with "xim" i thought right away "what if it's "mix"? so he could have saved himself 20 minutes lol
That Geo guesser dude does just cheat Because it doesn’t matter if you spend eight hours a day just looking through Google earth and random places, you’re not gonna know every single place, so what he probably does is he has another page open on his other monitor, and he just dropped the image into that and tell him where it is
nah he doesn't, and he isn't even the best at geolocating images. he's just the most famous, with bellingcat being a close second. there's people out there on twitter pinpointing random missile strikes and small temporary military outposts in the middle of the syrian desert within a few hours as a mere hobby. and those people have almost nothing to go off of, no terrain, no faces, no signs, one road at most, little social media presence, nothing. also, reverse image searches can be wildly misleading, and an image that grainy might not produce easy matches.
We tracked down a Hololive VTuber by analyzing the sound of a fart during her stream. The way the sound resonated through the room, combined with the temperature changes caused by an open window, allowed us to detect subtle distortions in the audio. By comparing these distortions to known temperature variations across the country at that time of day, we were able to estimate her location.
This guy is good, but he could be better. There are easier ways to scape the internet for restaurants for letters in names if you know how. I recently found a restaurant I once went to years ago out of state with only the memory that it was Italian and had an apostrophe in the name somewhere 😂 I’ve also been a graphic designer for 25 years so there’s a lot of tricks you can sometimes use beyond what he has shown here. You really can’t protect yourself fully unless you completely abstain from social media.
Kinda odd to me that he didn't upload that very unique drink to google images or any other image search engine right away...maybe I didn't catch any restrictions for this challenge? If not, he could've found that place in a couple of mins
tempted to give him a dark, zoomed in image of my carpet in the dead of night so there's no light from the outside (because the light bleed through can give it away). obscuration is the best defence from being found.
You are being too concerned about the wrong thing. The picture was just a small part of it, remember that his biggest hint which allowed him to narrow down to Hong Kong was the social media account.
oh the fbi won't arrest you unless you're literally hacking people or things to do it. they'll just watch you intently, hoping to learn how to improve from your methods.
I have a pixel phone and if i take a picture and then click info the data stored on that picture is date time make of phone and a part that say add location
genuine question: how difficult would it be to have AI find it for you beforehand and then for the video you just make up a bunch of BS steps as to how "you" found it?
I've found people's real names and addresses on discord this way. He's a lot better than I am but the point is that, if you post stuff online, be 100% sure you want to share it.
Ya. People post crap online all the time, not realizing how many people see it, or how dangerous it is. Which is why you don’t do it. I mean, it’s egocentric in the first place to just be like “Lol! Eating at my favorite cafe! Lol! Lookit me being so meeee! Lol!” so it’s not something you should be doing anyway, but it’s also incredibly dangerous.
Thank God this guy didn't make the decision to be a villain.
Didn't make the decision to be a villain "yet".
Just don't give him a reason to
Who's to say he isn't already one?
Wait till the government hires him
the world will make him
*Note to self: NEVER POST ANYTHING IRL* 😰
It was the social media footprint that screwed him over, which is what linked the photo to Hong Kong. Without that it would had been practically impossible to locate. Moral of the story is to air gap your accounts. Separate everything for the things you want to keep private that don't cross reference anything outside of the thing you want to keep private.
Using your 2006 hotmail email for your dumb secrets that is linked to literally everything you have ever done online is the most common way of screw yourself over.
Fun? fact: There has been loads of times where someone has been found irl either by the police or random strangers because of a stranger or their friend just randomly taking a picture and posting it online.
Without thinking about what/who’s in the background and not understanding that some people don’t want to have their life shared online with random strangers.
It’s also why doxing/publicly revealing someone’s personal address without permission is actually illegal.
Because you are basically incentivising potentially bad people to go to that persons location and possibly putting that persons life in danger if they have people that don’t like them.
I never understood why would anyone willingly post their private information for everyone to see on the internet.
Unironically, yes.
@@oOSonicexeOo This is actually a plot point in the anime, "Odd Taxi."
what have we learned kids:
1. never post in social media
2. never challenge god
...that's pretty much it.
Those are both really good pieces of advice.
If I saw a detective in a movie do this, I would think it was fake and break my immersion
That's because it is fake here too...
I guess you missed imageboard (4ch?) autists combing a whole desert on google maps satellite layer to find where some muslim bigshot's photo with 2 obelisks in background was taken.
@@mongolifepawn842 You literally have visual evidence and the guy explaining his thought pattern, its clearly not fake, you can train yourself to see things very analytically like this
@@thatlonewolfguy2878 it's fake... he probably looks at the data the phone saves on the picture. Location data is a thing, and apos like Facebook will be able to tag where you were when you took the picture. It's a feature that Facebook implemented in 2004, I might be off a year or 2, but nobody uses it anymore. Then you just bs the reasoning to get to the place.
@@thatlonewolfguy2878 and to quote "Armageddon" "American components; Russian components; all made in Taiwan." You can't separate my patterns and stuff, because most of the world get the supplies from the same place.
Reminds me of Operation Capture The Flag, where 4chan found a log cabin inside a museum in Finland that Shia Lebouf was renting for his HWNDU Livestream
With all the AI voodoo all of this will become even crazier. Instead of doing that manually you can just sic the bots at it to scour through your 10k pictures for some dumb pattern, and every month it becomes easier and easier to do for non-programmers.
@@MidWitPride That's not how that works. :)
It's more like the time Kiwifarms tracked down a zoosadist from a photo of icecream
@@Asdayasman That's exactly what those reverse image searchers do. There is no reason why it couldn't be expanded to anything and everything in google maps etc too. And to get truly good results you'd need to train the model to be specifically tailored for the task, which will be slow and computationally expensive, but there are people who'd go to absurd lengths in order to dox someone. Even if it means training your own model to be expert at recognizing wood grain patterns of some specific type of a table around the world.
@@MidWitPride No please, Mr. Dunning, tell me more.
That's an elite level skill tbh
The issue with digital images is that you can scrape the metadata off anything and get a location instantly. But yeah people can geoguess stuff like this with enough practice.
Usually social media removes EXIF data that has geografical coordibates, and the uncrop function doesnt work unless the file format is DNG I'm pretty sure
@@Xnoob545 You are indeed correct.
my guy doesn't need to be a hacker to dox
Bro is Literally Detectiv Conan and Professor Layton Combined wouldnt want him to be the main villain
This is how people on kiwifarms found the zoo sadist in cuba. He posted that he was at an ice cream shop and they found him that way
Between this guy, HWNDU season 3-6, and the Tom Scott eclipse video from about 9 years ago, I have learned very important lessons about posting information online.
Well you know what they say. A picture is worth 1000 words
I love Rainbolt. Happy to see our little fox watching the GOAT locator!
There's no way the feds don't have this guy on a "contact if we need to find someone" list
Fun fact, he has talked about this. And he basically said, no he nor any other geogessr pro (that he knows) has been contacted by a government body.
I think he said, alot of the ppl that do stuff like this for the feds, do a good enough job.
and they prob also have better tools than just using google/photoshop.
I’m a retired Army MP and this guy worries me!😂
Hes super nice luckily. Hes just a nice guy
I like how I thought "Mix" right away when he said "X-I-M".
"So you decided not to subscribe after watching the whole video. Your coordinates are ......"
“He just does this for fun?”
It always surprises me that people don’t realize how weird or unexpected someone’s hobbies could be. I’m almost 40 and the primary thing I ask for from my wife on holidays is LEGO sets cause I love building them and adding them to my setup. It’s my version of ‘guy who likes train sets’ 😂
I mean, it's the same reason why I started learning how to pick locks around the age of 13-14 (pre-youtube era), I just found it fun to take things apart and set them back together again and just happened to pick up on how most locking mechanisms seemed to operate by accident.
Reminder Rainbolt isnt even the best geoguesser player ,imagine the ones who compete in the world cup
Is this guy a fed? He seems like he’s a 3 letter agency analyst
If he was an alphabet agent, I doubt he'd survive the reprimand for posting his techniques on RUclips. xD
I think he has a video of him taking CIA tests about locations where it’s not only about where something is but at which day a picture was taken and stuff like that.
Seem to smart for that
The skill it takes to do that is ridiculous
Do the internethistorian vidoe on how 4chan found Shia Lebouf's flag in the middle of nowhere
I already had the thought to flip the pic after the first few minutes, but i was gonna let him cook first.
"A picture is worth a thousand words"
I knew it was mixing room cuz I’ve been there but it’s crazy he found out about it randomly… like talk about finding a needle in a haystack
Rainbolt is everywhere on Earth. You can't escape 😱😱😱
Always a comfy time when watching a fellow schizo at his craft.
*Starting to see the advantages of my unwillingness to post photos on social media...
*Notices that I would still be fucked thanks to my parents or relatives posting photos online and so my advantages instantly got thrown in the trash...
welp... guess there is no use bothering about it.
6:39 hahaha the way you say sussy sounds like a whole lot of braces just added their effect.
Dude is MK Ultra no way around it.
Ngl if someone like Bolt and I stopped being friends I wouldn’t just move to another country I’d move to another universe 😭
Soooo when will the FBI offer him a job? He’s clearly got a mind for this.
**Batman has entered the chat**
Pretty neat how he goes through the process like a how to guide on stalking people from the smallest details. Can’t see how anyone would get any ideas from this
and that is why i never post any irl photos on twitter
This is impressive and scary at the same time!
2:56 he missed a chance to use Gaussian anti-aliasing or any anti-aliasing for that matter. Coupled with higher contrast and gray scale he could stop guessing the letters on the menu and instead just read it. Since there is some data in those pixels, if they were completely black he wouldnt as you cant tune data if there is no data (color data to be specific).
fliping it was also a good move
moral of the story is never argue with geo guesser pros or else.
What if i take a photo of just the grass on the ground and nothing else
Real life superhero right here....
The title would be: "How to Doxxing People Starter tutorial."
Actually seeing news about stalkers or videos like this made me realize how easy it is to track some place or someone, to the point where I assume many Vtuber/RUclipsrs/Famous people have already been known real identity by someone somewhere right now they just have no reason or still human enough to not expose it.
the funniest part to me is that watching this, the very moment he came up with "xim" i thought right away "what if it's "mix"? so he could have saved himself 20 minutes lol
Why can't you just take the photo of the ground and email him to find you 😂
Dude literally did the zoon and enhance thing like it is normal lol.
Oh pais ya.
I'm Spanish. Ah pais ya. She is saying Aya. Over there, a fruit.
FBI be like : come on dude, don't leak our methode.
Or
FBI be like : Teach us please
Oh.. that food looked so good .
I’m not gay but that dudes hot, Alana’s avatar has some competition
I might be gay but id sleep with him
i need 10h version Papaya.
Pay pa pa paya pa
When he uncropped the photo 💀💀💀💀
This guy needs to find missing people
They glow in the dark
howd i notice mix off the jump
That Geo guesser dude does just cheat
Because it doesn’t matter if you spend eight hours a day just looking through Google earth and random places, you’re not gonna know every single place, so what he probably does is he has another page open on his other monitor, and he just dropped the image into that and tell him where it is
nah he doesn't, and he isn't even the best at geolocating images. he's just the most famous, with bellingcat being a close second.
there's people out there on twitter pinpointing random missile strikes and small temporary military outposts in the middle of the syrian desert within a few hours as a mere hobby. and those people have almost nothing to go off of, no terrain, no faces, no signs, one road at most, little social media presence, nothing.
also, reverse image searches can be wildly misleading, and an image that grainy might not produce easy matches.
Not your fault Alana but JESUS THAT VOCAL FRY. Imagine getting doxed by this guy and him calling you.
Bro, you don’t need the internet. Just go out with your friends after 9pm as a 14yo kid, and your raging mom or dad can find you in 0.5 seconds 😂
No way he can do this
We tracked down a Hololive VTuber by analyzing the sound of a fart during her stream. The way the sound resonated through the room, combined with the temperature changes caused by an open window, allowed us to detect subtle distortions in the audio. By comparing these distortions to known temperature variations across the country at that time of day, we were able to estimate her location.
This guy is good, but he could be better. There are easier ways to scape the internet for restaurants for letters in names if you know how. I recently found a restaurant I once went to years ago out of state with only the memory that it was Italian and had an apostrophe in the name somewhere 😂
I’ve also been a graphic designer for 25 years so there’s a lot of tricks you can sometimes use beyond what he has shown here. You really can’t protect yourself fully unless you completely abstain from social media.
Thing is rainbolt ain’t even the best player
Kinda odd to me that he didn't upload that very unique drink to google images or any other image search engine right away...maybe I didn't catch any restrictions for this challenge? If not, he could've found that place in a couple of mins
I suspect it was a self imposed challenge to not reverse image search anything unique that would probably just give it away immediately?
Moral: never use apple 😂😂😂😂
Would have loved to see this without him being able to resize the file.
Dude is scary
ExifEraser is your friend.
Only 13 likes in 1 picosecond?? Fell off!
why would someone edit a dng file and export it as a dng...especially something like that
Can you reach to a halo fan animation by a RUclipsr named sodaz
tempted to give him a dark, zoomed in image of my carpet in the dead of night so there's no light from the outside (because the light bleed through can give it away). obscuration is the best defence from being found.
You are being too concerned about the wrong thing. The picture was just a small part of it, remember that his biggest hint which allowed him to narrow down to Hong Kong was the social media account.
@@NorthzYT social media account + name of restaurant (3 first letters that are rare) oh no such an impossible feat xd
@@Ryan38475 ?
8:12 he scrolled passed an exact copy of a picture (different picture) with the same the angle would have been clear at that point
OSINT challenges are pretty fun tbh.
but if i explained what i did for them i'd probably get locked up
oh the fbi won't arrest you unless you're literally hacking people or things to do it.
they'll just watch you intently, hoping to learn how to improve from your methods.
@@dead-claudia does using a data leak to find someone's account count as hacking ?
Sherlock
Yo. I've been pretty pronounced.
scary
Does your phone's picture app get your location by default, even if you have your location off?
I have a pixel phone and if i take a picture and then click info the data stored on that picture is date time make of phone and a part that say add location
......😮
genuine question: how difficult would it be to have AI find it for you beforehand and then for the video you just make up a bunch of BS steps as to how "you" found it?
Very difficult for AI to do all of that in sequence with one input. You'd have to assist it a lot along the way.
he had to manipulate image to gain more info. if this was jpeg, not raw he wouldnt find it
I've found people's real names and addresses on discord this way. He's a lot better than I am but the point is that, if you post stuff online, be 100% sure you want to share it.
Real person or an AI?
Interesting 😊
he isnt even top 50 in this stuff
.
Just take picture of a plain wall no context to it and let see him find that wall
Ya. People post crap online all the time, not realizing how many people see it, or how dangerous it is. Which is why you don’t do it. I mean, it’s egocentric in the first place to just be like “Lol! Eating at my favorite cafe! Lol! Lookit me being so meeee! Lol!” so it’s not something you should be doing anyway, but it’s also incredibly dangerous.
To be fair there is an EXCEEDINGLY small minority of people with the skills rainbolt has
Digital footprint and all that, huh? If he had no info on the person he wouldn't find it
We live in a terminally online world, even the grandma's and grandpa's have to be in and if they are then you are included by association.
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