ISSUE #174       GUIDED CHAOS NEWS

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ARE YOU A DALLAS-FORT WORTH RESIDENT? Want to start an informal Guided Chaos Training Group? After our intensive Austin Seminar last week, we had a request from a participant looking for Dallas-Fort Worth training partners. Interested in working out or starting a group? Email us and we can help in the organizing. HOW WAS THE TEXAS SEMINAR? "I am very grateful that you have found the way through to the simple  yet profound truth of how to deal with the chaos of true violence and,  even more importantly, that you have figured out a way to pass this on  so effectively to others.    Thank you so much for coming out to Austin. This was such a great  opportunity for our training group to grow and be energized. This will have a  profound effect on the continued development of our training group."    --Excerpted from an email to GC Grandmaster John Perkins from Derick Miller,      Austin Texas Guided Chaos training group. Want to join Derick's group? Contact him by registering on the Training Groups page on our website

BREAKING NEWS:     LOS ANGELES SEMINAR COMING END OF FEBRUARY    Details in next Newsletter...

THEY KNOW WHERE YOU ARE...      How to Stop Them      [Adapted from an unclassified Gov't safety document]

--From "MYTHBUSTERS": In August of 2010, Adam Savage, of “MythBusters,” took a photo of his vehicle using his smartphone. He then posted the photo to his Twitter account including the phrase “off to work.” Since the photo was taken by his smartphone, the image contained metadata reveling the exact geographical location the photo was taken. So by simply taking and posting a photo, Savage revealed the exact location of his home, the vehicle he drives and the time he leaves for work. Read the full story here --From WIRED MAGAZINE: “I ran a little experiment. On a sunny Saturday, I spotted a woman in Golden Gate Park taking a photo with a 3G iPhone. Because iPhones embed geodata into photos that users upload to Flickr or Picasa, iPhone shots can be automatically placed on a map. At home I searched the Flickrmap, and score—a shot from today. I clicked through to the user’s photo stream and determined it was the woman I had seen earlier. After adjusting the settings so that only her shots appeared on the map, I saw a cluster of images in one location. Clicking on them revealed photos of an apartment interior—a bedroom, a kitchen, a filthy living room. Now I know where she lives.” As the stories above indicate, privacy and security aren’t what they used to be. With advancements in technology, enhanced GPS capabilities and smartphoneswith built-in GPS, managing privacy and security is a fulltime job. With new technologies come new risks. Today, more than ever, it is vitally important that people understand what kind of data they are broadcasting and what they can do to protect themselves and their families. What is geotagging? Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification to photographs, video, websites and SMS messages. It is the equivalent of adding a 10-digit grid coordinate to everything you post on the internet.   Geotags are automatically embedded in pictures taken with smartphones.Many people are unaware of the fact that the photos they take with their smartphones and load to the Internet have been geotagged. Photos posted to photo sharing sites like Flickr and Picasa can also be tagged with location, but it is not an automatic function. Photos have used geotagging for quite some time. Certain formats like the JPEG format allow for geographical information to be embedded within the image and then read by picture viewers. This shows the exact location where a picture was taken. Most modern digital cameras do not automatically add geolocation metadata to pictures, but that is not always true. Camera owners should study their camera’s manual and understand how to turn off GPS functions. On photo sharing sites, people can tag a location on their photos, even if their camera does not have a GPS function. A simple search for “New York City” on Flickr reveals thousands of location tagged photographs that have been uploaded. Never tag uploaded photos with a location. Location-based Social Networking Location-based social networking is quickly growing in popularity. A variety of applications are capitalizing on users’ desire to broadcast their geographic location. Most location-based social networking applications focus on “checking in” at various locations to earn points, badges, discounts and other geo-related awards. The increased popularity of these applications is changing the way we as a digital culture view security and privacy on an individual level. Foursquare Foursquare is a location-based social networking website for mobile devices. Users “check-in” at various places using a mobile website. They are then awarded points and sometimes “badges.” Users of foursquare use the service to share their location with friends, meet new people and get coupons. Users can also connect and publish their “check ins” to Facebook and Twitter. If someone is not a friend on foursquare they can still track your whereabouts through Facebook. Foursquare has over 4 million users. Foursquare currently has iPhone, Android, webOS, Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry applications.http://foursquare.com/ Facebook places Facebook’s“Places” is similar to Foursquare in that it gives an individual’s location when the users posts information using a mobile application. This feature is available by using the Facebook application for iPhone, touch.facebook.com and Android. This function is automatically active on all Facebook accounts until disabled.http://www.facebook.com/places/ Gowalla Gowalla is another location-based social networking application that functions much like Foursquare and Facebook Places. Users can build a Passport which includes a collection of stamps from the places users have been. Gowalla users can also post photos and submit tips at various locations. http://gowalla.com/ SCVNGR SCVNGR is a location-based social networking application that takes “checking in” a step further by allowing companies, educational institutions and organizations to build challenges inside the platform. Users are encouraged to complete the challenges in order to earn points, badges or real-life discounts and coupons. http://www.scvngr.com/ Why are these applications potentially dangerous? --Establishes patterns: Services like MotionX and other location-based social networking applications allow strangers to track your movements every day. If they watch someone long enough they will know exactly when and where to find that person on any given day. --Exposes places of work and home: By tracking movements and aggregating information, strangers can determine where someone lives and works. Users can delete geotagged photos, but once the information is out there, it’s out of the user’s hands. Even if posted briefly, others can capture vital information. One of the simplest ways to avoid displaying too much information is to disable the geotagging function on smartphones. Since most smartphones automatically display geographical information, it takes a little more effort on the user’s part to protect their privacy. It’s important that all users understand their specific systems and make efforts to turn off their phone’s geotagging function. Turn off the GPS function of smartphones when not in use. Users deciding to utilize location-based social networking sites should be aware of the default settings for the services and devises they use. It is recommend that the users customize settings.

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